More than half of British Covid-19 hospital patients treated primarily for something else

There are lies, damned lies, and statistics! With the Covid-19 pandemic we got a lot of it!

Unfortunately, I was not able to quickly find the study underlying the article below.

The death count is ambiguous if not inflated. Everybody was counted dying with the coronavirus independent of the cause of death. Of course, there is also the undercount, but undercount does not justify an overcount.

Now, we learn that possibly the hospital admission count is similarly misleading: Many cases are counted although they were treated primarily for something else and/or the patient was admitted for something else.

"More than half of all Covid-19 patients in hospital trusts in England are being treated primarily for something else, new figures show.

Of the 13,023 patients reported as having the virus on January 25, 6,767 (52%) were not being treated principally for Covid-19.

This is the highest proportion since these figures were first published in June 2021, and is up from 26% at the start of December. ..."

More than half of Covid-19 patients treated primarily for something else