Covid hospital admissions in the southeast are up 87% in the past week
In Florida, “at least half of covid-19 patients are being treated for other conditions, not the virus”
So I guess the distinction between “with covid” and “for covid” is working its way into the mainstream, but I’m not really sure what my takeaway is supposed to be from this reporting.
More than 1,000 kids have died in the US from Covid during the pandemic so far, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). More than 830,000 people have died in the US from Covid so far.
In New York, hospitalizations among kids quadrupled. In Washington DC, children’s hospital admissions have roughly doubled. In Texas, children’s hospitalizations were described as “staggering”. In Alabama, cases were “like a rocket ship”. In Louisiana, one doctor said: “We’ve never seen anything like it.” In Ohio, one associate professor of internal medicine and pediatrics critical care recently told ABC news: “We’re on fire.”
Hospitals are shooting past the peaks of previous surges, many of them driven by the Omicron variant. In South Africa, children and teens accounted for 17% of hospital admissions during the Omicron wave, compared to 4% during the second wave and 3.5% during the third, which was fueled by the Delta variant.
I have in-laws who are anti-vax and one of them got Covid and ended up in hospital with a blood clot. He’s been there a week.
They were arguing with the hospital about whether to classify this as a Covid-related stay. This seemed very important to them.
It is unclear to me if they are: (1) denying he had Covid, (2) Admitting he has Covid, but claiming the clot was not caused by the Covid, or (3) Admitting that Covid caused the clot, but now claiming he’s in the hospital for the clot, not for Covid. Or something else equally stupid.
I think they are claiming (3), but I don’t care enough to get into it.
Treated for other conditions, not the virus is classic horseshit. Covid can cause lots of things, and with the failure of remdesivir there’s not a lot of treatment
Pretty unsure how worried to be about my 6 month old. He’s already had a 3 night hospital stay but that’s cause he caught RSV when he was like 5 weeks old. Has had a myriad of other day care colds and bugs in the time since then.
Some people are, sure. Others are just hoping for news about the CRON being milder being true. They kinda sound the same, though, so it can be hard to tell those two apart at first glance.
I guess I was interpreting this as meaning the patient was admitted for something else (e.g., sharkbite, ) and just happened to test positive for covid. But the wording is ambiguous so it’s effectively useless.
My wife’s school implemented a policy that if a kid tests positive no one around them will be considered a close contact because they technically have to be wearing a mask. She teaches virtual and has kids coming in once a week (we’ll see).
The teachers also have to use their own sick days if they get covid even if they are vaccinated which is so fucked up. Let them strike IMO.
