Our regional public TV folks (Hessen's HR network) brought up this topic.
So you fall off a bike, burn yourself in the kitchen, or have a car-accident....upon arriving at the emergency room, they conduct a 'quickie-Covid' test. There is now a trend where people were being admitted into German hospitals, with Covid....but they arrived for a whole other reason in the first place.
The Ministry of Social Affairs had a request to fulfill this information request.....so they investigated and found this remarkable trend.
The official numbers you get nightly on Covid and hospitalizations.....just aren't what you think they are.
The rough numbers here for people who aren't entering because of bad Covid? Roughly 40-percent of Covid hospitalizations....are from a problem which was unrelated to Covid.
You can toss this around and shake your head, but it's the reality of the situation. For all of 2020 and 2021....it was probably this way and no one really challenged the numbers.
The next step? Well....in a logical world, you'd make two categories and say x-number showed up with no necessity for hospitalization other than they had plain Covid, and the second group being folks who had a critical problem at the hospital but Covid was just in the background.
Even people with heart attacks arriving for hospital service and being a Covid number? Yeah.....that as well.
You could have been in a knife fight in Frankfurt's bar district.....gotten clobbered by your wife for nasty talk....fallen off the bar stool and broke your arm....or even eaten some pretty crappy food for food-poisoning.....but when entering that hospital, you were tested and were pushed into the Covid-ward as a patient there mostly for that reason.
You can laugh over this, but that's the way things went.
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