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SimulationCommander's avatar

One thing I haven't noticed others talking about are 'incidental covid hospitalizations' as it pertains to regular hospital activity. We know that 30% of covid hospitalizations are pregnant women, who MUST be in the hospital. But many other things were delayed last year. This kept people out of the hospital and out of the 'incidental covid hospitalization' bucket.

This year, more hospitals are back to 'regular' activity. Therefore you'd EXPECT 'incidental covid hospitalizations' to increase because now it's not just the pregnant women coming to the hospital for other reasons, it's EVERYBODY who 'normally' goes to the hospital.

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Rob Jenkins's avatar

How about this for a hypothesis: Deaths caused by the vaccines are being counted as Covid deaths. People are being rushed to the hospital as a result of an adverse event—say, a stroke or heart attack—where they “test positive” (perhaps from some residual virus in the nasal passage) and the COD goes down as Covid. Is that plausible, given the data? It might explain the fewer hospitalizations/more deaths conundrum.

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