A person walks past the emergency room of a hospital.
Jackson Health System in Florida admitted half of its COVID patients for non-COVID reasons.
After being admitted, these patients test positive for the coronaviruses.
Experts warn that catching COVID-19 can make conditions worse in the hospital.
The health authority in Florida said that about half of the patients listed as being in the hospital with COVID-19 were admitted for non-COVID reasons.
The Jackson Health System said on Monday that it has 437 patients who have tested positive for carbon dioxide.
Half of the patients are admitted to the hospital for non-COVID reasons.
The post was a snapshot of the prevalence of COVID in the US.
Insider previously reported that Anthony Fauci, the White House chief medical advisor, warned that the data should be taken with a grain of salt.
He said in a Wednesday interview that some would be admitted for a broken leg, or an appendix, and only later would they be found to have COVID-19.
A large proportion of hospital admissions can be made up of carbon-19 cases.
According to the UK National Health Service, about a third of the 8,321 COVID-positive cases in England on December 28 were made up of these.
New York Gov. Hochul and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis warned that there could be a lot of cases in their states.
Hochul said that starting tomorrow, they will be asking hospitals how many people are being hospitalized because of symptoms.
The experts warned againstunderestimating the data because of the cases.
The Senior Vice President of the Children's hospital in New Orleans said in a statement that "78%) of 905 kids were hospitalized last summer because of carbon dioxide." He did not name the hospitals.
David Strain, a senior clinical lecturer at the University of Exeter medical school, said in an interview with The Guardian that having COVID-19 can make a problem worse.
Many other people who have been otherwise stable have had chronic diseases such as heart failure, ulcerative colitis, and other that caught COVID and had a rapid deterioration.
He said that the sudden deterioration in otherwise stable disease can be attributed to the virus.
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