The Hill: Stanford expert says 80-85 percent of Texas hospital patients 'have nothing to do with COVID-19'

“When I looked at every single hospital area in Texas today, 15 to 20 percent of people in the hospital as inpatients are [COVID-19] positive patients. That means 80 to 85 percent have nothing to do with COVID-19. And the same thing goes with some of the other states. There are people hospitalized, a large number, because they are tested as [COVID-19] positive, somehow they’re categorized as [COVID-19] hospitalizations, that’s a problem,” he said. 

Can someone explain that end to me? Sounds like he is literally saying 85% of people are being tested for Covid but are being counted as Covid and thats a problem! Because until it's positive they have nothing to do with it. Which I kind of get but if there is a huge backlog and you are on a ventilator isn't it better to be safe than sorry? Why tell people it's fine?

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