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The most important COVID metric was never cases, but hospitalizations
The hill ^ | 02/24/2022 | DR. AMESH ADALJA

Posted on 02/24/2022 6:55:14 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic the most important metric to me was never cases, but hospitalizations. When dealing with an inevitable endemic respiratory virus that cannot be eradicated, the goal should be shifting disease to mild disease.

In the U.S. this has not been an easy task as much of the population have not had to individually risk calculate as extolling these techniques were not a major component of official response (which was heavily “abstinence-only” focused), vulnerable populations such as nursing home residents were not protected, and too many high-risk individuals have shunned the life-saving vaccines.

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KEYWORDS: cases; covid; hospitalizations; metric
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No BEEP Sherlock
1 posted on 02/24/2022 6:55:14 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Ignoring and prohibiting early treatments led to an unnecessary caseload of hospitalizations.


2 posted on 02/24/2022 6:58:12 AM PST by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
...and too many high-risk individuals have shunned the life-saving vaccines.

I'm glad this is not my doctor. The statment I quoted reveals a lot of idiocy on his part.

3 posted on 02/24/2022 6:58:47 AM PST by MortMan (You better bring yours, when you come to take mine. - Creed Fisher)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

But the healthcare system is rewarded by the government for hospitalizations.


4 posted on 02/24/2022 7:03:21 AM PST by alternatives? (The only reason to have an army is to defend your borders.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

But those numbers may not have frightened anyone, so.........


5 posted on 02/24/2022 7:03:40 AM PST by day10 (You'll get nothing and like it!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

6 posted on 02/24/2022 7:04:31 AM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The only “COVID” metric that matters is the sheer volume of lies, propaganda, and manipulation of data that created the whole fraud in the first place.


7 posted on 02/24/2022 7:16:35 AM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Since day one, every time a thread came up about the increasing number of cases, I always started with this single comment: Define “case”.


8 posted on 02/24/2022 7:17:36 AM PST by cuban leaf (My prediction: Harris is Spiro Agnew. We'll soon see who becomes Gerald Ford, and our next prez.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Someone explain to me why they focused on looking for vaccines instead of the remedy?


9 posted on 02/24/2022 7:20:39 AM PST by californian by choice
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The most important metric was not hospitalizations but propaganda, fear, and control. “Never let a crisis go to waste”. Especially a planned, man-made crisis designed to overturn a fair election and oust a duly elected president.


10 posted on 02/24/2022 7:24:27 AM PST by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (America -- July 4, 1776 to November 3, 2020 -- R.I.P.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
From the very beginning immunologists, med. scientists, doctors have been saying there are "preventatives" and "cures"..... no need for the un-proven and often dangerous vaccines.

But the MSM and social media websites have restricted the reporting and covered that up so certain people could get rich off the vaccine stocks.

And how many hundreds of thousands of people died who didn't have to???

11 posted on 02/24/2022 7:26:48 AM PST by high info voter
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To: Yo-Yo

Exactly. Most of us knew, and said this, all along. And, everybody knows they have been cooking the books since this whole charade started.


12 posted on 02/24/2022 7:39:46 AM PST by Obadiah (Fauci is the golden calf of science.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“hospitalizations” is a skewed data point.

When all the public hears is FEAR PORN, YOU’RE GONNA DIE! PANDEMIC! DAILY Covid press conferences from the President of the United States!

OMG! I MIGHT have Covid, I’m gonna DIE! What do I do?

You RUN to the hospital, of course.

And THEN what happened? They KILLED you.

Hyperbole? Not really. All the FEAR PORN caused most hospital staff to be afraid to treat patients.

The safest course of “treatment” was to put you on a ventilator, which necessitated drugging you unconscious isolate you from family (advocates), give you Remdesivir (organ killer) get a DNR, get you out of that bed so as to make room for their next victim that they can collect up to $100,000.00 from. Then sell (get reimbursed for expenses) your organs, rinse repeat.

Money is the root of all evil. I don’t know if it’s a root or a route, but it is definitely EVIL.

Don’t believe in evil? What was the very first Covid social casualty? Churches. As a regular church goer, I haven’t been to church in two years because of masks. I WILL NOT WEAR A FACE DIAPER WHILE WORSHIPPING MY LORD.

Masks are the Devil’s handiwork.


13 posted on 02/24/2022 7:43:06 AM PST by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

wallensky acknowledged hospitalizations were with Covid and for Covid but the numbers have never been separately reported.

Same for deaths.

when will we know?


14 posted on 02/24/2022 7:47:22 AM PST by joshua c (Dump the LEFT. Cable tv, Big tech, national name brands)
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To: jjotto
Ignoring and prohibiting early treatments led to an unnecessary caseload of hospitalizations.

This right here. The jihad against early quick-and-dirty treatments was the huge "tell" that this had little to do with public health and everything to do with politics and trying to oust Trump, no matter the human toll.
15 posted on 02/24/2022 7:50:08 AM PST by rockvillem
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Even the hospitalization data became infected — with false attribution and financial incentives to diagnose as COVID. Check-out the explanation by Dr. Atlas at a presentation sponsored by Hillsdsle College.


16 posted on 02/24/2022 7:54:09 AM PST by Socon-Econ (adi)
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To: cuban leaf; Auntie Mame; null and void
There were about 2-3 super compelling articles on FR concerning this whole fiasco. This is one of them, regarding "what is a case"?

Here is the Cliffs Notes version:

‘In epidemiology, a case fatality rate (CFR) — sometimes called case fatality risk or disease lethality — is the proportion of deaths from a certain disease compared to the total number of symptomatic people diagnosed with the disease.’

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A symptomless, or even mildly symptomatic positive swab is not a case. Never, in recorded history, has this been true. However, now we have an almost unquestioned acceptance that a positive swab represents a case of COVID.

17 posted on 02/24/2022 7:55:06 AM PST by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: Socon-Econ

The recent acknowledgment that the counts included people hospitalized WITH the bug vs BECAUSE OF the bug, blew this statistic to smithereens, too.


18 posted on 02/24/2022 7:57:31 AM PST by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I had always thought that if it was a true pandemic vs scamdemic the homeless populations of LA would be devastated which of course never happened.


19 posted on 02/24/2022 8:13:27 AM PST by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (Dems: We cheated fair and square!!!)
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To: ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton

Well those homeless peeps may not have great nutrition, but they are exposed to who knows what all the time, so ones that remain are sort of a survivor population in themselves.


20 posted on 02/24/2022 8:15:11 AM PST by nascarnation (Let's Go Brandon!)
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