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Almost Half of New York COVID-19 Hospitalizations Not Due to COVID-19

by Zachary Stieber


Nearly half of the patients currently in New York hospitals with COVID-19 were admitted for reasons other than the disease, the state said on Jan. 7.

Forty-three percent of the 11,548 hospitalized patients didn’t have COVID-19 listed as one of the reasons for admission, Gov. Kathy Hochul’s office said.

Hochul, a Democrat, told a press conference that she wanted to drill down on the hospitalization numbers to see how many patients are actually being treated for COVID-19 versus merely having the disease, which often causes no or mild symptoms…


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