Governor Makes Stunning Admission About COVID Hospitalizations

Acknowledging that the number of hospitalizations due to COVID-19 has been overstated, New York Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul announced hospitals now must clarify if patients with the novel coronavirus came to the hospital due to symptoms of COVID-19 or because of another health issue.

Saying she wants to “always be honest with New Yorkers about how bad this is,” Hochul said the state had reached “a critical moment” and “we’re going to start asking some questions.”

“We talked about the hospitalizations. I have always wondered, we’re looking at the hospitalizations of people testing positive in a hospital,” she said Monday. “Is that person in the hospital because of COVID or did they show up there and are routinely tested and showing positive and they may have been asymptomatic or even just had the sniffles?”

An example, she said, someone who gets in a car accident, goes to the emergency room and tests positive for COVID.

New York state will start breaking down its hospital figures between "with" and "because" of COVID-19, Governor Kathy Hochul says.

"We're going to start asking some questions .. is that person in the hospital because of COVID" or because of a car crash? pic.twitter.com/ifqXV4OBVj

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