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   Almost Half Of New York COVID-19 Hospitalizations Not Due To COVID-19   
      
   Sunday, Jan 09, 2022 - 07:30 PM   
      
   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.   
      
   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.”   
      
   Hochul had announced on Monday that the state would be separating out   
   hospitalizations for COVID-19 versus those with the disease, which is caused   
   by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus.   
      
   She said it was important to know the percentage of patients in each category   
   as the number of hospitalizations rise.   
      
       “I just want to always be honest with New Yorkers about how bad this is.   
   Yes, the sheer numbers of people infected are high, but I want to see whether   
   or not the hospitalizations correlate with that. And I’m anticipating to see   
   that at least a    
   certain percentage overall are not related to being treated for COVID. But   
   we’re still going to watch hospital capacity,” she said.   
      
   Most people admitted for non-COVID reasons who have COVID-19 are in New York   
   City, with approximately half the hospitalizations there meeting that   
   criteria, the data show. In some other areas, the percentage is much lower.   
      
   New York Gov. Kathy Hochul speaks during a news conference in the Manhattan   
   borough of New York City on Dec. 14, 2021. (Carlo Allegri/Reuters)   
      
   “About 50 percent are admitted with COVID and 50 percent admitted for   
   COVID,” Dr. Steve Corwin, CEO of New York Presbyterian Hospital, which is in   
   the city, told reporters. “Of the patients in the hospital, 50 percent are   
   unvaccinated or partially    
   vaccinated and 50 percent have two doses of the vaccine,” he added.   
      
   Partially vaccinated means a person has received one dose of the Moderna or   
   Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines or has received two doses but two weeks have not   
   elapsed since their second dose.   
      
   Dr. Scott Gottlieb, a former Food and Drug Administration commissioner who   
   sits on Pfizer’s board, said the percentage was higher than he would have   
   expected.   
      
       “Unclear why we’d see so much incidental infection. I’m hearing   
   similar stats in [New Jersey] and [Connecticut] hospitals. Creates some   
   concern [that COVID-19] could be spreading by contact with healthcare system   
   itself,” he wrote on social    
   media.   
      
   While many jurisdictions and hospitals do not make clear how many COVID-19   
   patients are being treated for other reasons, researchers found last year that   
   approximately half of the hospitalizations showed just mild or no COVID-19   
   symptoms. Another study    
   found four-in-10 children hospitalized with COVID-19 were asymptomatic, and   
   the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s director, Dr. Rochelle   
   Walensky, told reporters Friday that the recent increase in pediatric COVID-19   
   hospitalizations was due    
   in part to non-COVID reasons.   
      
       “This is really a consistent problem we keep ignoring it as if it’s   
   not an issue. It is an issue,” Dr. Scott Atlas, part of the White House   
   COVID-19 response team during the Trump administration, told The Epoch Times   
   previously.   
      
   Hochul told people who are only experiencing mild symptoms to stay home amid   
   concerns of overburdening New York’s healthcare systems. She said that   
   nearly 5,000 New Yorkers in the past 24 hours alone went to emergency rooms   
   for COVID-19 testing.   
      
   “We have capacity. We have 2,000 locations where people can get tested. So,   
   please do not go to an emergency room and tie up the resources, those   
   individuals, so you can get a test. And don’t come in if you have very mild   
   symptoms, either,” she    
   said. “I know you’re anxious, I really understand this, but if you’re an   
   adult that has very minor symptoms, you can handle a runny nose. You can   
   handle your throat being a little bit sore, a little bit of cough. Just treat   
   it as if you would have    
   the flu. Follow the protocols, but please don’t overburden our emergency   
   rooms.”   
      
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