If I happen to run into an english article covering this news I’ll post it but like I lack the motivation to address skepticism caused by what wacko anti-vaxxers in the US say. I don’t share opinions or pretend to be a virologist, I just relay statistics and facts from strictly authoritative sources. In this case from the most reliable authority on the matter in my country.
Ugh.. you said please.. Ok let me put it this way then: We’re currently one of the few countries in europe, if not only one, in lockdown. Which like pretty much all measures and restrictions here is dictated primarily by the number of hospitalizations (we have relatively low icu capacity). I just watched 2 hours of live debate in our house of reps where the just installed new cabinet eventually promised to provide the chamber with more accurate numbers (as in hospitalizations because of covid, not with) from now on and the lockdown will very likely be ended for this very reason. The president of acute healthcare and person responsible for spreading patients to prevent overloading hospitals, a prominent figure during the pandemic, professor at the top medical uni, is now minister of health. We replaced a few politicians with scientists. I have no reason to believe he, the entire government and all hospitals are lying while they admit and correct this mistake in reporting. The expectation is the number of hospitalizations because of covid is at least 30% lower than the total including patients “with” covid. For reported covid ICU admissions the number is already known, almost 10% isn’t actually there because of covid.
It’s also already older news at our neighbors in Germany and the UK, where too at least 30% isn’t actually hospitalized “because” of covid. I have no idea who and what is included in the stats in the US but even a broken clock is right twice a day so those anti-vaxxers might not be wrong entirely. Cherrypicking facts to illogically support their own desired conclusions is not uncommon for those spreading propaganda. Doesn’t necessarily mean the fact is ‘alternative’.
Anyway, take it or leave it