What is really behind this COVID move?

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In Texas, focal point of national anxiety about a coronavirus 'second wave,' the state counts every COVID-positive hospital patient as a hospitalization for COVID itself, which may be exaggerating numbers.

Exaggerating numbers?  Pfft! Imagine that!
Could this have anything to do with the hospitals and nursing homes getting paid large amounts of federal money if a death is labeled "Covid-19"?    

Health officials in Texas are logging every single COVID-19-positive hospital patient in the state as a COVID-19 hospitalization, even if the patients themselves are admitted seeking treatment for something other than the coronavirus. 

That policy may be serving to artificially inflate what ostensibly seems like a significant COVID-19 surge in the state. Texas has lately been the focal point of national anxiety over concerns that a "second wave" of the coronavirus has begun there after the state began reopening nearly two months ago. 

COVID-19 hospitalizations there have been on a steady upward track for about the last two weeks, per the state's coronavirus dashboard, which on Thursday recorded about 4,400 coronavirus hospitalizations in the state. But at least part of that trend may be due to liberal coding policies by state officials. 

Lindsey Rosales, a spokeswoman for the Texas Department of State Health Services, confirmed to Just the News this week that the state is categorizing every inpatient in the state with a positive COVID-19 test as a COVID-19 hospitalization.

"The number of hospitalized patients includes patients with a lab-confirmed case of COVID-19 even if the person is admitted to the hospital for a different reason," Rosales said. 

Asked if inpatients in the state are tested for COVID-19 whenever they arrive for treatment, Rosales said, "Hospitals set their own protocols for determining when and if to test patients for COVID-19."

Are people waking up to what's happening yet?  

Read more: Texas hospital CEO: COVID inpatient count 'misinterpreted,' level of alarm 'unwarranted'

Why is the media calling them "cases"? Cases generate in the mind the idea that they are referring to people that are sick or require treatment.

The numbers are the number of test results that, supposedly, have come back positive. Many of those people took the test weeks to months, before the results came in, so they shed no light on the number of people that may be actually positive at the time the results are reported.

Many of my nursing co-workers and friends, are required to be test regularly, every so many days. So some of those results are from a person that has been tested before. This means the results show an increase in the numbers of results, not necessarily an increase in the number of people.

In other words, the numbers are just numbers, that people are using to push their own agendas.