Jan 2, 2022·edited Jan 2, 2022Liked by Igor Chudov
Hospital admissions will continue to go up whether the person has mild or severe symptoms as long as there is a financial incentive to administer a pcr test (money to the hospital) and if the person is admitted-jackpot, 13,000 dollars, maybe a little less if the person doesn't have Medicaid. From day 1 there has been financial incentives to give test, admit to hospitals and put on vents. After all hospitals are businesses.
How do you know who was hospitalized with omicron and who with delta? Regular tests in testing facilities do not distinguish between the variants. Usually a (hopefully) representative sub-sample is tested by the health department where they supposedly can distinguish between the variants. But I doubt they will be able to figure out a proportion of ICU patients with either virus type.
The increase of hospitalizations and ICU numbers doesn’t mean COVID. Personally I believe it’s seasonal and vaccine injury that is causing the increase. When over all mortality is increasing it makes sense that these other numbers are increasing too. Just my thoughts :)
I wonder If most of those are still the Delta strain though. That’s because they revised the numbers a week or two ago, and while Omicron is quickly spreading, Delta was still responsible for most cases. Here in Dutchess County NY, which is an hour north of the city, the infection rate has shot up to 16.55% but hospitalizations haven’t moved much and are still below 100.
How government will respond if your observations are accurate is the question. It cannot/will not admit it’s complicity or let others do so with impunity. Double down and call out Snowball’s dogs? Declare open season on the unvaccinated?
Can anyone tell me how they know if it is Omnicron positive or Delta?
My Pregnant niece was tested by her doctor BUT could not tell her what strain.
How do they test for the difference?
Omnicron has a very high R value.. Almost 8..delta I think was under 2.. Just means more high risk people will get it faster than we are used to.best data is who is in the hospital because of Covid-19 and what is there age, overweight?, diabetic etc..
Hospital admissions will continue to go up whether the person has mild or severe symptoms as long as there is a financial incentive to administer a pcr test (money to the hospital) and if the person is admitted-jackpot, 13,000 dollars, maybe a little less if the person doesn't have Medicaid. From day 1 there has been financial incentives to give test, admit to hospitals and put on vents. After all hospitals are businesses.
Would hospitals let them in with a cold or anxiety…..You can bet your ass they are.
GOVERNMENT’S BOUNTY ON YOUR LIFE: HOSPITALS’ INCENTIVE PAYMENTS FOR COVID-19 ARE ABOUT $100K PER
The hospital payments include:
A “free” required PCR test in the Emergency Room or upon admission for every patient, with government-paid fee to hospital.
Added bonus payment for each positive COVID-19 diagnosis.
Another bonus for a COVID-19 admission to the hospital.
A 20 percent “boost” bonus payment from Medicare on the entire hospital bill for use of remdesivir instead of medicines such as Ivermectin.
Another and larger bonus payment to the hospital if a COVID-19 patient is mechanically ventilated.
More money to the hospital if cause of death is listed as COVID-19, even if patient did not die directly of COVID-19.
A COVID-19 diagnosis also provides extra payments to coroners.
FYI Igor
https://covid-19.ontario.ca/data/hospitalizations
Raw data by vaccination status is available for download on this site as well
How do you know who was hospitalized with omicron and who with delta? Regular tests in testing facilities do not distinguish between the variants. Usually a (hopefully) representative sub-sample is tested by the health department where they supposedly can distinguish between the variants. But I doubt they will be able to figure out a proportion of ICU patients with either virus type.
One bit of missing data in your analysis: whether the hospital admissions are in fact with Omicron, vs. Delta.
The increase of hospitalizations and ICU numbers doesn’t mean COVID. Personally I believe it’s seasonal and vaccine injury that is causing the increase. When over all mortality is increasing it makes sense that these other numbers are increasing too. Just my thoughts :)
Thanks for your article.
In terms of severity - or mildness - mortality and duration of stay in hospital also very relevant. Rate of ICU entry is likely a tainted metric.
I wonder If most of those are still the Delta strain though. That’s because they revised the numbers a week or two ago, and while Omicron is quickly spreading, Delta was still responsible for most cases. Here in Dutchess County NY, which is an hour north of the city, the infection rate has shot up to 16.55% but hospitalizations haven’t moved much and are still below 100.
How government will respond if your observations are accurate is the question. It cannot/will not admit it’s complicity or let others do so with impunity. Double down and call out Snowball’s dogs? Declare open season on the unvaccinated?
Igor, could you look at these numbers...and figure out if these are vaxxed in ICU, or unvaxxed? It might make a difference
Be interesting number infections not going to hospital at all compared to say Delta or other previous. Perhaps a milder amount…?
Let’s hope it’s nothing major.
Delta is still hanging around.
Can anyone tell me how they know if it is Omnicron positive or Delta?
My Pregnant niece was tested by her doctor BUT could not tell her what strain.
How do they test for the difference?
Omnicron has a very high R value.. Almost 8..delta I think was under 2.. Just means more high risk people will get it faster than we are used to.best data is who is in the hospital because of Covid-19 and what is there age, overweight?, diabetic etc..
Thus is very interesting https://darbyshaw.substack.com/p/insurance-ceo-says-deaths-way-up?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjozOTEzNjgzLCJwb3N0X2lkIjo0NjQ5MTQ1NiwiXyI6Ik1PbzFzIiwiaWF0IjoxNjQxMTY5MzIwLCJleHAiOjE2NDExNzI5MjAsImlzcyI6InB1Yi01MzQzMjIiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.cGTn80dWuLTKt-SmUATQ3H6FLaqkivQXH_wdoS7x3lo
You're still looking at hospitalizations *with* and not *for*