Over half of Covid hospitalisations tested positive after admission
1–10 of 241 posts
Re: Over half of Covid hospitalisations tested positive after admission
#2Re: Over half of Covid hospitalisations tested positive after admission
#3The threshold for a false positive with Covid is way too high. Perhaps half of positive results are false positives. We won't know for years due to a certain party's political zeal.
Re: Over half of Covid hospitalisations tested positive after admission
#4hmmm is this a new variant?
or have they got bad testing processes outside of hospitals? So many things this might be...
Re: Over half of Covid hospitalisations tested positive after admission
#5Well let's see, covid is clearly airborne as proven several times in the past year and the one place guaranteed to have covid in the air from severe cases (shedding) is a hospital.
I'm more impressed with people at the hospital not for covid with an extended stay who leave without covid.
Imagine an emergency waiting room in the USA.
Re: Over half of Covid hospitalisations tested positive after admission
#6hmmm is this a new variant? or have they got bad testing processes outside of hospitals? So many things this might be...
The main point of the article (at least as I understood it) is that I could be hospitalized for an open fracture in my leg, tested for COVID while there, test comes back positive (either true or false positive) and be counted as a "hospitalized COVID case".
Re: Over half of Covid hospitalisations tested positive after admission
#7Link is paywalled on mobile, thanks for the archive. Hospital tents that house the plague victims would be safer for regular hospital patients who were not originally infected. Doctors and nurses interacting with plague victims shouldn't work with any other patients and should stay in the quarantine zone until they are cleared.
Re: Over half of Covid hospitalisations tested positive after admission
#8Comments so far seem to misunderstand the issue. People are not catching Covid in the hospital. They are in the hospital for non-covid reasons (broken leg, pink eye etc) but if they test positive it will show up in statistics as a "Covid Hospitalization". That is terribly misleading because we want to understand if Covid is causing an increase in hospitalizations, this is attributing other causes to Covid.
Re: Over half of Covid hospitalisations tested positive after admission
#9Well let's see, covid is clearly airborne as proven several times in the past year and the one place guaranteed to have covid in the air from severe cases (shedding) is a hospital. I'm more impressed with people at the hospital not for covid with an extended stay who leave without covid. Imagine an emergency waiting room in the USA.
I went to a US emergency room during the peak of a wave. Everyone was masked. They also did COVID-19 symptom tests before admitting people. This isn’t perfect, but it greatly reduces the odds of having some person with unexplained “breathing problems” or whatever accidentally contaminating the ER.
Re: Over half of Covid hospitalisations tested positive after admission
#10hmmm is this a new variant? or have they got bad testing processes outside of hospitals? So many things this might be...
The vaccine is rendering infected people asymptomatic. So they never think to get tested because they don't feel sick. Then they break their leg, go to hospital, get tested as a matter of course, and now get counted as someone hospitalized with COVID.
Or they feel vaguely sick, it feels like a flu (due to delta having more cold-like rather than covid-like symptoms) and go to the hospital without getting tested for COVID first, and then get tested in the hospital.
We don't know, the data doesn't say.