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New statistics show that more than 40 percent of the state’s hospitalized coronavirus-infected patients were admitted for “non-COVID reasons” — with the ratio in New York City “about 50-50,” Gov. Kathy Hochul said Friday.
Wednesday’s statewide 42 percent figure was up from 39 percent Tuesday, Hochul said during a news conference in Manhattan.
Hochul noted that there were wide “variations in our different parts of the state” between people “in the hospital for COVID vs. non-COVID reasons.”
“The most number of people admitted for non-COVID reasons as of … a couple days ago are in New York City. It’s about 50-50,” she said.
“And let’s look at upstate, Central New York, places like that, where 79 percent are admitted due to real COVID — that they’re sick enough from COVID that they have to be hospitalized — vs. 21 percent who happen to be there for another reason and test positive.
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“So, that’s a very interesting snapshot of what’s going on across the state,” the governor said. “But what a variation we’re seeing.”
Hochul released the numbers after announcing Monday that she was ordering hospitals — which make daily COVID hospitalization reports through the state’s online Health Emergency Response Data System — to start differentiating why their patients with COVID-19 were initially admitted.
“Think of all the other reasons people end up in a hospital,” Hochul said Friday.
New York Governor Kathy Hochul
Gov. Hochul said that she will require hospitals to record whether patients infected with COVID were admitted for the virus or for other reasons.
AP Photo/Hans Pennink, Pool
“You know, it’s an overdose, it’s a car accident, it’s a heart attack. So, I wanted to drill down into those numbers.”
Hochul didn’t detail the breakdown from Thursday, and those numbers weren’t included in the data released by her office later in the day.
On Thursday, the state Health Department refused to release its calculations on the issue, saying officials needed time to “ensure consistency and data integrity.”
This is important to note for anyone who cares about truth and honesty. Fact is that it is universal practice--and has been for well over a year now--for people entering into the hospital to be tested for COVID. But, while they may be COVID positive--that doesn't necessarily have anything to do with why they are in the hospital. This is important to pushing back on the narrative that hospitals are overfilling due to people with COVID and similar narratives.
Interesting how Cuomo wanted the numbers high and Hochul wants them low.
I didn't think Cuomo wanted the numbers high, I remember he did the same with covid deaths back in May 2020; separating "those that died WITH covid" vs "those that died FROM covid". I remember a few other states and countries did the same.
This is important to note for anyone who cares about truth and honesty. Fact is that it is universal practice--and has been for well over a year now--for people entering into the hospital to be tested for COVID. But, while they may be COVID positive--that doesn't necessarily have anything to do with why they are in the hospital. This is important to pushing back on the narrative that hospitals are overfilling due to people with COVID and similar narratives.
Everyone admitted is tested so there are lots of asymptomatic cases found in the hospitals for other reasons .
However now the numbers of infected are so large now just from the shear numbers many hospitals are stopping there procedures that are not emergency cases as the covid beds are filling up again with sickly covid patients.
So we we will soon see the real deal
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