Posted on 01/04/22
| News Source: Newsmax
Nearly half the people hospitalized with COVID-19 at a major Florida hospital system were admitted due to “non-COVID reasons,” Newsmax reports.
Jackson Health System, in Miami-Dade County, also tweeted this week that nearly 80% of those hospitalized with COVID-19 were unvaccinated.
“Jackson Health System hospitals currently have 439 patients who have tested positive for COVID-19. Of those, 220 patients — or 50% — are admitted to the hospital primarily for non-COVID reasons,” the tweet said.
“Of the 439, 96 are vaccinated; 46 of whom are immunocompromised transplant patients.”
Govs. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., and Kathy Hochul, D-N.Y., in separate press conferences on Monday, said that cases in which COVID-19 is a secondary ailment could comprise a large proportion of hospitalizations in their states.
“Beginning tomorrow, we’re going to be asking all hospitals to break out for us how many people are being hospitalized because of COVID symptoms [and] how many people … happen to be testing positive,” Hochul said in a press conference at the State University at Rochester.