Ontario changes reporting methods for COVID hospitalizations, sees numbers drop 50%
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Today only just over half of the 2,203 people in Ontario hospitals who have tested positive for COVID were admitted for reasons associated with the disease.
(LifeSiteNews) – Ontario has adjusted its COVID hospitalizations recording method, resulting in an almost 50 percent drop in COVID specific hospitalizations in the province.
Toronto Sun journalist Anthony Furey tweeted the news this morning, stating: “Ontario has now updated their hospital data to disclose that, as of today’s numbers, 46% of general covid hospitalizations are incidental and 17% of covid ICU numbers are incidental.”
Ontario has now updated their hospital data to disclose that, as of today’s numbers, 46% of general covid hospitalizations are incidental and 17% of covid ICU numbers are incidental.
— Anthony Furey (@anthonyfurey) January 11, 2022
An incidental hospital admission refers to someone who is admitted to the hospital and tests positive for COVID with a PCR test but was not admitted to the hospital for COVID and is not suffering illness from COVID.
In other words, they are in the hospital for non-COVID illness or an injury, but because they tested positive as part of routine admission testing, they count as a COVID hospitalization.
Health care workers now have the option to input COVID information about a patient as pertinent to their diagnoses or incidental.
Ontario Health Minister Christine Elliot confirmed the change in a tweet, saying: “We are updating Ontario’s public reporting to distinguish patients hospitalized due to #COVID19 from those admitted for other reasons with COVID-19.”
We are updating Ontario’s public reporting to distinguish patients hospitalized due to #COVID19 from those admitted for other reasons with COVID-19.
— Christine Elliott (@celliottability) January 11, 2022
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