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From the article: "study suggests that roughly half of all the hospitalized patients showing up on COVID-data dashboards in 2021 may have been admitted for anot

From the article: "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."

peakaboo 5y ago
Which is what all those "conspiracy theories" was about. Honestly, I feel like the conspiracy guys has been far more accurate than the media about covid. The things they said would happen has happened, with about 6 months delay. What's next? Watching and seeing if the vaccinated people get much sicker than unvaccinated people when confronted with new variants of covid.
- hammock 5y ago
  >What's next? They might say jab passports (once the unjabbed group is small enough to hold down), social credit score, and digital currency.
thinkharderdev 5y ago
I don't think that is an accurate representation of the findings. Half of all patients at a VA hospital where they have a policy of testing everyone admitted for COVID regardless of why they are there. "Among the limitations of the study is that patients in the VA system are not representative of the U.S. population as a whole, as they include few women and no children. (Still, the new findings echo those from the two pediatric-admissions studies.) Also, like many medical centers, the VA has a policy to test every inpatient for COVID, but this is not a universal practice." So basically the population studied skews towards groups who tend to have better COVID outcomes and is subject to universal testing. It is interesting but I don't think it should really change the picture much.
TYPE_FASTER 5y ago
Like my dad, who was initially admitted for pneumonia. Which can be caused by COVID, which he tested positive for. He might not still have COVID from the “test positive” perspective, but he still has greatly reduced lung function. No clue how that would show up in the stats, but goes to show stats can be misused to tell different stories, such as our response to COVID being overblown.

From the article: "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."

peakaboo 5y ago

Which is what all those "conspiracy theories" was about. Honestly, I feel like the conspiracy guys has been far more accurate than the media about covid. The things they said would happen has happened, with about 6 months delay. What's next? Watching and seeing if the vaccinated people get much sicker than unvaccinated people when confronted with new variants of covid.

hammock 5y ago
>What's next? They might say jab passports (once the unjabbed group is small enough to hold down), social credit score, and digital currency.

thinkharderdev 5y ago

I don't think that is an accurate representation of the findings. Half of all patients at a VA hospital where they have a policy of testing everyone admitted for COVID regardless of why they are there. "Among the limitations of the study is that patients in the VA system are not representative of the U.S. population as a whole, as they include few women and no children. (Still, the new findings echo those from the two pediatric-admissions studies.) Also, like many medical centers, the VA has a policy to test every inpatient for COVID, but this is not a universal practice." So basically the population studied skews towards groups who tend to have better COVID outcomes and is subject to universal testing. It is interesting but I don't think it should really change the picture much.

TYPE_FASTER 5y ago

Like my dad, who was initially admitted for pneumonia. Which can be caused by COVID, which he tested positive for. He might not still have COVID from the “test positive” perspective, but he still has greatly reduced lung function. No clue how that would show up in the stats, but goes to show stats can be misused to tell different stories, such as our response to COVID being overblown.