News reports this week have declared a sky-high record of COVID-19 hospitalizations throughout the United States. But these accounts have ignored a critical signifier of that public health metric, failing to distinguish the number of patients hospitalized directly because of COVID from those who merely test positive for the disease while in the hospital for other treatment.
Hospitalizations have been viewed as one of the key metrics by which health officials measure the pandemic’s course in a community, a state or a country. Fears of overwhelmed hospital capacity have driven much of the world’s response to the pandemic. Spurred in part by Italy’s experience in March, when local healthcare systems were severely strained due to a crush of COVID-19 patients, Western governments have justified sweeping lockdowns and closures partly in order to avert overwhelming their healthcare systems.
There is more problems than the COVID medically right now. The people with underlying conditions, diabetes, cancer, heart problems are being totally ignored because of this virus testing. These are the people getting sick and dying and they give it the Covid Death call for $$$$$$$$