* But wait, there's more!
I just posted about an odd change in an odd entry I stumbled across in today's CSV file.
But there's even more to this story. Whenever I post these 'long COVID' entries, I usually get some pushback about maybe people having COVID so badly that they end up back in the hospital months down the road.
Ok. Absolutely valid possibility (still not appropriate labeling them as a current COVID case, but I digress).
So I went back into the old csv files to see if this 60-69 year old Montgomery County man existed in the file as having the 4/14 onset date -
- prior to the addition of the 11/23 admission date, and I found two 60-69 year old men from Montgomery County with an onset date of 4/14. One who was admitted to the hospital on 4/27, and a second who was never hospitalized.
I checked a bunch of random csv files, and these two men have been consistently there the whole time. No others of that age and sex that whole time. I went all the way back to 4/30. They're both there (top line in attached image).
That changed on 11/27. Instead of one hospitalized and one not, there were still just two 60-69 year old Montgomery County men with an onset date of 4/14, this time both had an admission date.
The odds that the man who was not hospitalized just happened to have his entry removed suddenly on the exact same day as another 60-69 year old Montgomery man with the exact same admission date is pretty close to zero.
It's probably pretty safe to say that the unhospitalized man from April is the same one who was admitted now.
All this time, over 7 months, this man was never hospitalized.
According to the CDC, this man would have stopped being infectious on 4/24. And to date there has been no cases of reinfection in the US. He is not infected, he is not infectious. And yet he is being used as a statistic to drum up fear and compliance.
He is being used to destroy businesses who have done everything asked of them. He is being used to destroy the education of our kids who have done EVERYTHING asked of them.
Why is he actually in the hospital? How many more are like him?
Say it with me. This is Fraud. #InThisTogetherOhio
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This one really bothered me during yesterday's press conference. The [linked] video [below] is of Dr. Andy Thomas of Wexner Medical Center saying things that sound really scary. None of what he said is untrue, but it gives a perception that is vastly different than reality.
facebook.com/15501424/video…
Yes, ~1/3 of all patients in the ICU or on a ventilator are COVID-positive (or at least once tested positive at some point in the last 8 months as my posts yesterday demonstrated).
But then he went on to the old threat of COVID 'crowding' other procedures out. First, there is significant regular capacity still available in the ICU (and as he noted, even the facility with 'trouble' was able to increase to 130%).
Something is extremely odd with indicator #7 of the OPHAS system. I have addressed this before in regards to region 6 of Ohio (facebook.com/.../permalink/…).
As odd as region 6 was, the variation was pretty small, up to ~2% extra overall capacity used on the OPHAS version than on the dashboard.
Keep in mind, BOTH the hospitalization dashboard on coronavirus.ohio.gov and indicator #7 on the OPHAS come from the exact same entity - the Ohio Hospital Association. There shouldn't be any difference.