1/ “States throughout the U.S. are failing to distinguish between patients hospitalized because of COVID-19 and patients who merely test positive for the disease while being hospitalized for other reasons” https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/covid-hospitalizations-reach-new-highs-states-failing-distinguish

2/ WI Dept of Health. "The # posted is for hospitalized patients, so those numbers represent people who are being treated for C19 in an inpatient setting. There may be other things going on with them, but they are included in that number if they are C19 positive & admitted."

3/ New Mexico Dept of Health: "When the state releases its daily COVID count, all COVID related hospitalizations are counted which includes those who are specifically hospitalized for COVID & those that test positive while hospitalized for other conditions."

4/ Mississippi state epidemiologist: "The hospitalization #s represent the # of people hospitalized with confirmed C19 infection, people in the ICU with confirmed C19, & # of people on ventilators with confirmed C19. #s reflect "patients hospitalized with confirmed C19"

5/ "The number of COVID-19-related hospitalizations reported is for all patients in the hospital with a lab-confirmed diagnosis of COVID-19, whether it is the primary diagnosis or a secondary one," said Charlie Gischlar with the Maryland Department of Health.

6/ Connecticut Department of Health spokeswoman Maura Fitzgerald said the state's hospitalization numbers encompass "the number of patients anywhere in the facility that are currently positive with COVID-19."

7/ CO Dept of Public Health: State's #s "include confirmed cases, & those who are under investigation for having C19, [who] could be hospitalized as a result of C19 symptoms but haven't been tested or they could be there for another reason. Same for the confirmed cases."

8/ The number of total hospitalizations in California "represents all who are hospitalized with COVID-19, including those being treated for other medical issues," the California Department of Public Health told Just the News

9/ Spokeswoman Karen Landers with the Alabama Department of Public Health said the state "classifies cases of COVID-19 as persons with positive PCR for SARSCoV2," while the department "does not sub categorize cases that are hospitalized."

10/ Lynn Sutfin, a spokeswoman with the Michigan Department of Public Health told Just the News that the state defines a COVID hospitalization as any patient "currently hospitalized in an adult inpatient bed who have laboratory-confirmed or suspected COVID- 19."

11/ RIDOH: state's hospitalization number reflects "all hospitalized patients with lab-confirmed C19, because when a hospital patient has C19, that places a strain on the hospital, even if that person was not hospitalized because of COVID."