AMERICANS HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW IF SOMEONE IS IN THE HOSPITAL WITH OR BECAUSE OF CHINAVIRUS GOTDAMIT!
News reports this week have declared a sky-high record of COVID-19 hospitalizations throughout the United States. But these accounts have ignored a critical signifier of that public health metric, failing to distinguish the number of patients hospitalized directly because of COVID from those who merely test positive for the disease while in the hospital for other treatment.