oddistrange t1_ixtftiq wrote
Reply to comment by Ashbin in What's up with the COVID numbers in Richmond? by Ashbin
A majority of the Richmond-metro area's hospital beds are located in Richmond, COVID results are probably attributed to the locality of the reporting hospital not the locality of the patient's residence. MCV and Chippenham are both in Richmond with ~1400 beds combined. Henrico Doctor's hospital is carrying the weight of Henrico with 767 beds. St Francis in Midlothian has 130 beds. This could be where and why the numbers are getting funky because I'm pretty sure most hospitals still require a COVID test for inpatient admissions.
Ashbin OP t1_ixve8el wrote
> A majority of the Richmond-metro area's hospital beds are located in Richmond, COVID results are probably attributed to the locality of the reporting hospital not the locality of the patient's residence.
VDH accounts for this and puts in location corrections. If you live in Chesterfield, VDH will consider it a Chesterfield COVID case, even if you are in a hospital in Richmond. The COVID report sent to VDH (by a hospital) has your address on it, and they code it based on that. If a screw up happens, a correction is issued.
These corrections for similar situations were put into the VDH database Wednesday:
Galax (-1 case)
New Kent County (-1 case)
Northampton County (-1 case)
Covington (-1 case)
Bath County (-1 case)
James City County (-3 cases)
Lexington (-4 cases)
Norton (-7 cases)
Colonial Heights (-10 cases)
Radford (-11 cases)
data from VDH database
Edit: corrected a wrong word
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