[anewguy9000]

ontario still conflates anyone hospitalized for anything testing positive for covid, with anyone hospitalized from covid; this alone could explain the discrepancy between a hospital bed and icu. lies damned lies and statistics...

[acdha]

It’s not that simple: yes, if someone gets in a car crash it’s probably not COVID but there are many cases where someone had a manageable condition that was disrupted by COVID — not 100% fault but not 0%, and a big problem for hospital capacity.

[iechoz6H]

Counterpoint; My mum nearly died of Covid, six weeks in hospital, four of which were in ICU. On leaving we discovered she no longer had epilepsy.

[labster]

If this is true, I hope she is in contact with an epilepsy researcher or three.

[iechoz6H]

She's not, no.

[cthalupa]

This is the sort of extraordinary claim that requires extraordinary evidence to support it, and there are many potential confounding factors.

[iechoz6H]

What sort of evidence would satisfy you?

[nradov]

A formal case report by her physician would be satisfactory.

[iechoz6H]

I'm probably being stupid, but are the down votes due to scepticism about the veracity of my comment?

[throwawaylinux]

My guess is because it was not a counter-point to what the previous poster wrote. Although what they wrote does not exactly address the comment being replied to either.

[djb_hackernews]

Uh...What?