Half of Patients In Hospital With COVID Admitted For Another Reason

This new study is wild.

“The study suggests that roughly half (!!!) of all the hospitalized patients showing up on COVID-data dashboards in 2021 may have been admitted for another reason entirely, or had only a mild presentation of disease.”

https://t.co/XUnh8uJ1q7

— Andrew Clark (@AndrewHClark) September 13, 2021

From The Atlantic:

[T]here are many COVID patients in the hospital with fairly mild symptoms, too, who have been admitted for further observation on account of their comorbidities, or because they reported feeling short of breath. Another portion of the patients in this tally are in the hospital for something unrelated to COVID, and discovered that they were infected only because they were tested upon admission.

...[T]he study suggests that roughly half of all the hospitalized patients showing up on COVID-data dashboards in 2021 may have been admitted for another reason entirely, or had only a mild presentation of disease.

This is huge. What a mess! Using inaccurate data to determine health policy results in faulty decisions. The "science" is crap.