Yesterday’s WaPo article includes a graph from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. It seems they have been tracking not only how many people are hospitalized with covid but also for covid. Currently less than a quarter are for covid.
Two infectious-disease experts I spoke with believe that the number of deaths attributed to covid is far greater than the actual number of people dying from covid. Robin Dretler, an attending physician at Emory Decatur Hospital and the former president of Georgia’s chapter of Infectious Diseases Society of America, estimates that at his hospital, 90 percent of patients diagnosed with covid are actually in the hospital for some other illness. “Since every hospitalized patient gets tested for covid, many are incidentally positive,” he said.
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