I think covid deniers do make up a significant percentage of the population, and they would take this as proof of exaggeration even though it really isn't.

US has had 1M excess deaths. That's a million people more than usual. http://www.healthdata.org/special-analysis/estimation-excess...

How is this not proof of exaggeration? Somebody in the hospital for a broken leg being counted as a "Covid hospitalization" just because they also happened to test positive for Covid means that the numbers are inflated. Period.

Covid is real. Covid numbers are inflated. You're arguing against a fictional "Covid denier" boogeyman which doesn't really exist.

Regardless of why they were admitted they still had covid.

You’re trying to answer what sent someone to hospital, not who has covid.

Your paper isn’t fact. It is an estimated published by perhaps one of the worst modelers out there. The IHME has been publishing scary models that couldn’t even accurately predict what was happening the day they were published.

Not significant percentage?

https://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2021/07/26/sel...