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The Biden administration is reportedly changing the way COVID-19 hospitalizations are counted in a way that critics have been demanding for months.
According to Politico , the Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are asking hospitals to change how they report COVID-19 patients. The federal government now wants hospitals to distinguish between people who go to the hospital because they have COVID-19 from those who are admitted to the hospital for other reasons, like a broken leg, and then test positive for the virus.
Changing the way COVID-19 hospitalizations are reported could have a cascading effect on the federal government’s response to the pandemic. Masking requirements, social distancing guidelines, and other coronavirus restrictions are enacted by public health officials who use case counts and hospitalizations as key metrics to gauge the severity of the virus.
Since the surge of cases caused by the Omicron variant, hospitalizations have come to be seen as a more reliable measure of severe disease. Counting coronavirus cases relies upon accurate testing, and people generally only get tested if they experience symptoms or if they’ve come into contact with someone who had the virus, while deaths are a lagging indicator.
The goal of the Biden administration is to have national data present a more accurate count of Americans who have been hospitalized because of COVID-19.
“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,” an HHS official told Politico. “Some entities may be able to delineate … but we do not do this in the national dataset.”
The Biden administration is reportedly conducting a national review of hospitalization data to determine how many people went to the hospital for COVID-19 during the […]
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