NY Gov Questions If Car Crash Victims Are Being Counted As Covid Patients: 'We Don't Have Clear Data'

New York state will start breaking down its hospital figures between "with" and "because" of COVID-19, Governor Kathy Hochul says.

"We're going to start asking some questions .. is that person in the hospital because of COVID" or because of a car crash? pic.twitter.com/ifqXV4OBVj

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"So we're looking at a critical moment, but we're going to start asking some questions. We talked about the hospitalizations. I have always wondered, we're looking at the hospitalizations of people testing positive in a hospital," Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul said Monday. "Is that person in the hospital because of COVID or did they show up there and are routinely tested and showing positive and they may have been asymptomatic or even just had the sniffles."

"Someone is in a car accident, they go to the emergency room, they test positive for COVID while they're there. They're not there being treated for COVID."

Hospitals must now clarify if patients with the virus came to the hospital due to symptoms of COVID or because of some other ailment.