Many patients hospitalized for other ailments, also testing positive for Covid
Health experts say the emerging trend of patients admitted to the hospital with Covid — instead of for Covid — may actually be a good sign, as it supports growing, already the dominant strain in the United States, is less likely to cause severe illness than earlier variants were, especially in people who are fully vaccinated and boosted.
, overwhelming hospital staff and delaying elective procedures, but not as many of them will suffer from struggling to breathe and needing supplemental oxygen, among other conditions.“I still think hospitalization data is the best data we have," said Dr. Stephen Schrantz, an infectious disease expert at UChicago Medicine,"but it is probably only useful as a relative value, meaning Covid is up or down, and not accurate as far as actual cases."Dr.
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