The bulk of people hospitalized with COVID-19 in New Jersey were actually admitted for a reason other than COVID-19, officials said Monday. Of the 6,075 people with COVID-19 and hospitalized in the state, just 2,963 were admitted for COVID-19, New Jersey Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli said during a briefing. “We have a fair number of what I’ve started to call COVID incidental, or incidental COVID, meaning you went in because you broke your leg but everyone’s getting tested and it turns out you’ve got COVID, you didn’t even know it,” Gov. Phil Murphy, a Democrat, said. “My wife didn’t know it and still she’s not back in the in the game but never had any symptoms, so there is a significant amount of that.” States have during the COVID-19 pandemic largely neglected to distinguish hospitalizations for COVID-19 versus incidental COVID-19. However, after large numbers of vaccinated people began testing positive, with …