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Since they will take up space in a covid ward, it's not that strange that they are counted as hospitalized by covid in some statistics.
by CorrectHorseBat 5y ago
Since they will take up space in a covid ward, it's not that strange that they are counted as hospitalized by covid in some statistics.
- ajsnigrutin 5y agoBut they will clear up spaces (and doctors and nurses) in other wards. And they're hospitalized "with" covid and not "by" covid. They might even be asymptomatic, in the hospital because of a broken leg, and they count towards the statistics that we then use for new lockdowns. Same with deaths "by" covid and deaths "from" covid. I know it's hard to say, when an 85yo patient with 6 different illnesses dies, if it was the covid that killed them or if it was unrelated heart failure. There was even a time where once you tested positive for covid, you could only die from that, and nothing else: https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/why-no-one-can-ever-recover-from-covid-19-in-england-a-statistical-anomaly/ https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/why-no-one-can-ever-recover-fr... > In summary, PHE’s definition of the daily death figures means that everyone who has ever had COVID at any time must die with COVID too. So, the COVID death toll in Britain up to July 2020 will eventually exceed 290k, if the follow-up of every test-positive patient is of long enough duration. This was changed to 28 days (i think) later, but atleast having a soft separation of "with" "by" and "maybe/probably by" would also mean a lot.