In a nutshell, over a dozen states were not reporting hospitalizations until recently. So the NYT has been claiming that the increased hospitalizations is indicative of a big, scary resurgence when it's actually caused by increased visibility/reporting on data on hospitalizations.

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The New York Times on Wednesday reported that coronavirus hospitalizations have risen dramatically and are nearing their April peak. The Times, however, either overlooked or ignored a serious factor: Way more states are reporting hospitalizations now than were reporting at the April peak.

“The rising hospitalizations reflect the scale of serious illnesses,” the Times said. “Nearly as many people are in hospitals now as there were when New York was at its worst.” The latter part is true. The Times notes that as of July 22, 59,628 people were being treated in hospitals for the Wuhan virus. During the peak of the outbreak on April 15, when New York was the nation’s hot spot, 59,940 were hospitalized for the virus. The data comes from The Atlantic’s COVID Tracking Project, which collects virus data daily from all 50 states, plus Washington, D.C., and five U.S. territories.

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The problem is that the article’s own source reveals that the spike in numbers can be partly attributed to the fact that Florida, the country’s third-most-populous state, began reporting hospitalizations only two weeks ago, meaning sheer hospitalization numbers are not the clearest measure of the virus’s seriousness— at least not the way the Times compares them.

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A deeper dive into the data reveals Florida wasn’t the only addition to hospitalization counts. On April 15, a total of 37 states and territories were included in the near-60,000 hospitalization figure, with New York bearing the brunt of the caseload. July’s so-called spike includes data from 52 states and territories.

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The New York Times even mentions Florida’s late data reporting further down in the article, but compares the apples-and-oranges data sets, mischaracterizing July’s numbers as a “surge” and a “spike.”

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Comparing total hospitalizations, tracked with the gray line below, shows an apparent spike, but it’s illusory. More and more states, a quantity depicted by the orange line, have begun reporting hospitalizations, which largely flattens the alleged spike. The blue line below tracks the hospitalizations in only the states and territories included in both the April 15 peak count and the July 22 count, a more than 30 percent decrease in the number of people hospitalized for the Wuhan virus in those states. States included in the July data but absent from the April data include Florida, Georgia, Maryland, and South Carolina, among many others.

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Unlike the New York nursing home massacre, enabled by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, which largely drove the April coronavirus death toll, younger people have driven the latest increase in COVID-19 hospitalizations, the New York Times reveals.

And what did a lot of younger people do in the larger cities after the George Floyd murder?

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These blunders from the New York Times follow another journalistic failure last week, when the paper of record hyped a South Korean study, saying it proves children ages 10 to 19 are highly infectious. The report actually revealed children are hardly spreading the coronavirus, if at all.

They've done the same thing with the increase in Covid-19 patients correlating with an increased screening and testing effort. They claim that the virus spreading when, most likely, we are stepping up testing and screening efforts to find it.