Breakdown in data has been source of controversy for two years.
Updated: January 8, 2022 - 10:16am
Data from the state of New York
appears to indicate that a huge percentage of “hospitalizations” for COVID-19
there are not actually due to COVID-19 itself.
In a data dump from Gov. Kathy Hochul’s office, the
governor shared numbers of “how many hospitalized individuals who have tested
positive for COVID-19 were admitted for COVID-19/COVID-19 complications and how
many were admitted for non-COVID-19 conditions.”
Statewide,
the number of patients who have tested positive for COVID but where the disease
“was not included as one of the reasons for admission” is 43 percent.
The
distinction between patients hospitalized “due to” COVID and those merely
hospitalized “with it” continues to be a source of controversy and vexation for
public officials, data analysts and commentators.
Journalists
and some experts have been warning for much of the pandemic that the
true hospital burden of COVID-19 is being distorted by the failure to
distinguish between those two categories.
U.S.
public officials appear to be coming around to the distinction. Top infectious
disease expert Anthony Fauci, for instance, several days ago acknowledged that a high proportion of
pediatric COVID hospitalizations actually involve children “hospitalized with
COVID as opposed to because of COVID.”
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