#US #COVID19 So in all the helter skelter of the last few hours, I forgot to put this out there.
North Dakota reports hospitalizations "for" covid, and they also report total hospitalizations to HHS, so i was able to go back through their database to determine the % for.
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North Dakota reports hospitalizations "for" covid, and they also report total hospitalizations to HHS, so i was able to go back through their database to determine the % for.
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Here's how it rolls up. Green is what they report to HHS as "Hospitalizations", while red are the ones that are actually in the hospital FOR covid. The delta between these two would be incidental covid (With), there for other things (pregnancy, surgery, broken bones, etc)
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We can then look at the splits and see how many are hospitalized for covid or with covid. In times of higher community prevalence, obviously, we could expect a higher percent of hospitalizations to be "for" instead of "with".
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So what does this mean? Of all the hospitalizations in the state of North Dakota, about 40% of them are currently "for" covid, with the other 60% incidentally "with" covid and just happened to test positive.
We should be adding this context to the US when we speak of hospitlzns
We should be adding this context to the US when we speak of hospitlzns
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