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Omicron surge pushes U.S. Covid hospitalizations toward record high

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> Hospitalization data, however, often does not differentiate between people admitted for COVID-19 and so-called incidental cases involving people who were admitted for other reasons and were found to be infected during routine testing.

In New York 42% of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 were in the incidental category, Governor Kathy Hochul told a briefing on Friday, a sign of how the data may not be giving the clearest picture of Omicron's impact in terms of severe disease.

So, in other words, omicron might not be pushing hospitalizations.

God I hate reading darn near anything about Covid due to a lack of understanding of Statistics.

And I believe hospitals are given upwards of $10,000s for each COVID patient they admit, so..

Not really true, at least for that amount. Really tired of the bogus conspiracy theories. Hospitals get paid for deaths.

Remdesivir can be coded on death certificate for extra payment. Hospital association has details at https://www.aha.org/news/headline/2020-07-30-cms-releases-ic...

And be careful with that stuff because it is so dangerous that in a study on Ebola patients Remdesivir was killing people faster than the Ebola. They have been trying for years to find some way to sell that drug.

Hilarious manufacturer description of it here https://insideangle.3m.com/his/blog-post/cms-announces-new-i... "Remdesivir is an experimental nucleotide which has shown to have potential activity against COVID-19. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has authorized the emergency use of remdesivir to treat hospitalized patients with suspected or confirmed COVID-19. Remdesivir is not approved anywhere globally for any use and the safety and efficacy for the treatment of COVID-19 are not proven."

This doctor and Stanford professor, Jay Bhattacharya, on Lex Fridman podcast says differently and doesn't mention Remdesivir: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oIOGUYOPAsA

Another reason why deaths from COVID may be so high, a pulmonary nurse stated in a 30 minute testimony to a government public committee/inquiry, is that they were treating COVID patients differently than any other lung disease related diseases; he believes there's been mass malpractice, he also references Remdesivir; suppress preventative-proactive treatment so people need hospitalization, so then they gain monetary incentive from one or more things - is the developing conspiracy hypothesis. I'll try to lookup on YouTube the testimony I'm speaking of and will edit to add if I find it again.

Another thing that everyone should be up in arms about is questioning just how well/poorly done, and with how much integrity and/or oversight were the clinical trials done with? Watch this 11 minute testimony of Maddie De Garay's mother sharing their story - her 12 year old daughter in wheelchair and needing feeding tube, among other issues, after being in Pfizer's 12-15 year old trial - which I may note they only collected (inaccurate and limited) data for for 7 days post vaccine: https://youtu.be/L2GKPYzL_JQ - more videos of her story out there as well on "fringe" sites; here's another 5 minute video of their experience everyone should watch.

I wish people weren't lazy to downvote instead of asking for a citation or where or why I believe what I said. If you care about the truth then you understand misinformation is real, whether malicious and purposeful or exists through incompetence, if you take an arrogant stance that "your information" is right and that it couldn't actually be misinformation - then you're part of the problem with society today, including ideology and the intellectual and integrity crisis.

How do we really disagree? Feds pay extra for Remdesivir deaths. That stuff causes more death than Ebola, yet they got it approved in USA for emergency use. And the shall-not-be-mentioned Ivermectin, which has decades of proven safety, is shunned.

Ventilators have 90% kill rate, and higher in China. The game is to avoid having to vent.

Ivermectin may be "safe" but provides minimal benefit against covid

So some experts claim the Ivermectin clinical trials are poorly done, so based on this testimonial from a mother who's daughter was injured the Pfizer trial for 12-15 year olds - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2GKPYzL_JQ - do you think the Pfizer trial was done well or badly? Do you think the way Pfizer trial was done is more or less disturbing than Ivermectin being promoted? Where's the outrage over this Pfizer situation (and which calls into question the oversight of all of the vaccine trials if this is possible).

Sorry, I don't reply to anecdotes, particularly ones on youtube

>Hospitals get paid for deaths.

Seems like paying them for recoveries would make more sense. The former seems like you would be paying them for failure rather than success.

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