The administration’s goal is to get a more accurate sense of Covid’s impact across the country.
“You need a panel of experts to review the cases to adjudicate if a hospitalization is for a person who came in for Covid or with Covid,” Topol said. “It's not something that is coded in the chart. A lot of people will say an individual came in with Covid, but it was actually the Covid that exacerbated the lung or heart disease.”
The Trump administration launched a similar effort at the height of the pandemic in 2020. While some hospital networks have changed how they input Covid-19 admissions since then, many have not been able to consistently separate individuals who arrive at the facility for non-Covid reasons — for example, for a heart problem or a broken leg — and those who test positive for the virus upon arrival. The two senior Biden officials said the process of getting every hospital in the country to report accurately will likely take several months.
"While the guidance and intent of the hospital data collection is to capture people who are admitted for Covid (vs with Covid), in practice the data reported varies by entity,” a senior official at HHS told POLITICO in a statement. “Some entities may be able to delineate … but we do not do this in the national dataset.”
If they'd wanted these results to have anything to do with reality, they left a word out of the formulation:
Were they admitted WITH 'Covid' (money) or FOR 'Covid' (money)?
One way or the other, I can't see any other reason anyone would have ticked that box, not like anyone even has a rat's ass of a clue to how genuine any part of this 'pandemic' has ever been.
Go along to get along, and cover that ass, the medical facts be damned.
(They must be; I haven't seen anything even resembling one in over two years already.)
Lesson #1 (22 years overdue) for the Century of Stupid:
Never underestimate the power of a viral (!) rumor, to get folks acting even stupider.
If they'd wanted these results to have anything to do with reality, they left a word out of the formulation:
Were they admitted WITH 'Covid' (money) or FOR 'Covid' (money)?
One way or the other, I can't see any other reason anyone would have ticked that box, not like anyone even has a rat's ass of a clue to how genuine any part of this 'pandemic' has ever been.
Go along to get along, and cover that ass, the medical facts be damned.
(They must be; I haven't seen anything even resembling one in over two years already.)
Lesson #1 (22 years overdue) for the Century of Stupid:
Never underestimate the power of a viral (!) rumor, to get folks acting even stupider.