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Originally Posted by someone123
It depends on the place but in some places, a covid death is just a death with a positive test, and a covid hospitalization is just a hospitalization with a positive covid test. If a 7 year old goes in for foot surgery and happens to test positive for covid, in covid hospital count is incremented by 1. If a cancer patient happens to test positive for covid 2 weeks before dying of cancer, they are a covid death. Anyone who goes into a hospital is screened and they go there for one problem or another.
This does not mean that there aren't people still getting seriously ill but I'm not sure there is a clear end point that will be indicated by the "headline" statistics given the way they work. Perhaps a more reasonable assessment would add some context or "control" in the form of all-cause mortality and mortality from other factors.
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Here in Louisiana, if someone tests positive within 6 weeks of the date of death, that person is counted as a COVID death. There are no other factors considered. Unfortunately, this elevates the numbers and causes confusion among the vaccinated, as the latest state data shows that 43% or 114 of the 265 COVID deaths registered were in vaccinated individuals during the week of 1/20-1/26. The state is currently 52% fully vaccinated.
The CDC excess death from COVID tracker has not registered a week with excess deaths since the week ending 11/20/21 despite consistently high COVID death numbers reported by the state. This indicates that COVID death totals have been over-inflated during this latest Omicron wave given the highly contagious nature of this variant amongst both vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals.
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