Our Most Reliable Pandemic Number Is Losing Meaning
A new study suggests that almost half of those hospitalized with COVID-19 have mild or asymptomatic cases.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...leading/620062/

"The study found that from March 2020 through early January 2021—before vaccination was widespread, and before the Delta variant had arrived—the proportion of patients with mild or asymptomatic disease was 36 percent. From mid-January through the end of June 2021, however, that number rose to 48 percent. In other words, the study suggests that roughly half of all the hospitalized patients showing up on COVID-data dashboards in 2021 may have been admitted for another reason entirely, or had only a mild presentation of disease."

So, roughly half of all the hospitalized patients showing up on COVID-data charts in 2021 have been admitted to the hospital for another reason entirely. But don't let the people who watch the mainstream news tell you hospitals are filling up with Covid patients. They are filling up with patients, as the system is designed to, some of which also happen to have Covid mild or asymptomatic.