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🇺🇸@COVID19Up: The Biden administration is working on recalculating the number of COVID-19 hospitalizations in the United States, according (https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/07/biden-covid-hospitalization-data-recalculate-00006341) to two senior officials.
After two years of messy COVID-19 hospitalization data, the Biden administration is now joining team “we should not be counting those who went to the hospital for reasons other than COVID-19 and later tested positive.”
A task force comprised of scientists and data specialists is asking hospitals to report numbers of patients hospitalized because they have COVID-19 separate from those who check in for other reasons and test positive for SARS-CoV-2 after being admitted, the two officials said.
The administration’s goal is to get a more accurate sense of the impact COVID-19 is having across the country and whether the virus is causing severe disease.
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