https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/almost-half-new-york-covid-19-hospitalizations-not-due-covid-10
Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times,
Nearly half of the patients currently in New York hospitals with COVID-19 are not in the hospital because of COVID-19, the state said Friday.
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Forty-three percent of the 11,548 hospitalized patients did not have COVID-19 listed as one of the reasons for admission, Gov. Kathy Hochul’s office said.
Hochul, a Democrat who is seeking a full term in office, told a press conference that she wanted to drill down on the hospitalization numbers to see how many patients are actually being treated for COVID-19 versus merely having the disease, which often causes no or mild symptoms.
Some of the patients test positive for COVID-19 “but they’re in there for other reasons,” Hochul said.
“Think of all the other reasons people end up at a hospital; it’s an overdose, it’s a car accident, a heart attack.”