San Francisco is seeing fewer COVID-19 ICU admissions than the previous two waves.
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These cases of"incidental COVID" — patients who are in the hospital for other reasons and happen to test positive for COVID-19 — have always existed, and many public health departments still count these cases as"COVID hospitalizations.
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