Massachusetts will soon differentiate in the state’s COVID-19 hospitalization data whether the patients were admitted to the hospital because of COVID-19 or they just happened to have the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus that causes it. Public health officials of Massachusetts said that starting from Jan. 10, hospitals in Massachusetts will be reporting whether admissions are “primary or incidental to COVID-19,” reported Boston Globe. The state’s daily update for “patients hospitalized for COVID-19” currently counts both types of admissions. The change means that the figure will show how many patients were hospitalized because of the severity of their COVID-19 symptoms, and how many patients ended up in hospitals for some other reasons but tested positive for the virus. As of Jan. 6, the number of patients in Massachusetts hospitals with confirmed COVID-19 cases rose to 2,367, the most since Jan. 5, 2021, according to the state health department. Of those …
Massachusetts Hospitals to Report Whether Admissions Are Primarily Because of COVID-19
January 9, 2022
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