Rather true. While hospital admissions only list patients suffering from covid, the total number of occupied beds in the covid units of Belgian hospitals includes some patients positive for the virus, but admitted for another reason. A phenomenon that Sciensano cannot quantify, but which is not anecdotal given the strong circulation of omicron at the moment.
By Xavier Counasse
PSeveral readers, challenged by Sciensano’s figures, wrote to the editors of the Evening to point out an apparent “inconsistency” in the figures published by the research institute. Example: there are in the figures for this Friday morning 341 hospital admissions due to covid, and 343 patients discharged, cured. If we add the few people who died in the hospital, it would be logical that the total number of beds occupied by covid patients would decrease… since the number of people who left the hospital is greater than the number of people entering. Except that, still in the Sciensano data, the number of occupied “covid” beds is increasing. And not just a little. We went from 2,570 beds occupied in the covid units to 2,736 in 24 hours, or 166 more beds. Legitimate question: where do these patients come from? Is there an error in the data?
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