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AlexSFCA

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26. the most important metric is hospitalization rate

Fri May 15, 2020, 11:51 AM

May 2020

Infections not requiring hospitalizations are good infections as they lead to greater community immunity. We must plan that the vaccine won’t be available for 5 years so we will have new infections daily for all these years. It’s hospitalization rate that needs to remain low.

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With states reopening, under Trump's leadership, daily cases in USA jump 50% [View all] Doodley May 2020 OP

Happening faster than I expected empedocles May 2020 #1

+1 That was my immediate response. n/t Laelth May 2020 #8

Still looks like the normal weekly pattern to me, but other than NY/NJ ... dawg May 2020 #2

Normal weekly pattern but maybe it is significant that the Monday figure was the lowest Doodley May 2020 #18

I'm only keeping a general track on the numbers Mike 03 May 2020 #3

maybe there was more testing which accounts for higher cases JI7 May 2020 #5

If you just watch the national numbers, the increases in red areas gets drowned out... Wounded Bear May 2020 #7

Yes - and it is too soon for incubation, spreading, and testing to show the effects of openings. Yonnie3 May 2020 #9

Is that to paraphrase Donald Trump? Doodley May 2020 #19

covidact.org shows the proper infection rate per state and there are only 5, I don't believe uponit7771 May 2020 #34

That was fast !! We sure that's been over a number of weeks? tia uponit7771 May 2020 #4

You're cherry-picking numbers. Ms. Toad May 2020 #6

+1 Yonnie3 May 2020 #10

+1, do we have a weekly chart? I've been looking for the last 30 mins and can't find a ... uponit7771 May 2020 #11

I was thinking of doing this but decided it wasn't worth the work. Yonnie3 May 2020 #15

Go here and look at daily new cases in the menu. The day to day pattern is clear. Pobeka May 2020 #24

There's no way to take out NY, there's no numbers that show nationally sans NY like TRMS showed uponit7771 May 2020 #31

You could go to github and grab the Johns Hopkins data for yourself. Pobeka May 2020 #38

NY Metro definitely skews the national numbers. Ms. Toad May 2020 #35

+1,I was just looking at the chart above (https://outbreak.info/data) on the county level uponit7771 May 2020 #37

Thanks for this! Nt USALiberal May 2020 #14

+1,000,0000 DrToast May 2020 #16

Georgia opened a while ago. Tipperary May 2020 #20

We're definitely suppressing numbers. dawg May 2020 #21

according to covidactnow.org Georgia isn't testing enough people uponit7771 May 2020 #32

+1. Any reasonable comparison would use 7 day averages. n/t Pobeka May 2020 #25

The OP is cherry picking numbers gristy May 2020 #12

Maybe, but that figure of 18196 on Monday was the lowest for six weeks. Maybe Doodley May 2020 #17

Lots of variation in individual day numbers. Less testing on weekends, Monday testing results Thur/F Bernardo de La Paz May 2020 #13

Watch Wisconsin! All those elbow-to-elbow beer drinkers on the news, no masks either will..... machoneman May 2020 #22

The plan is to have every bucolic_frolic May 2020 #23

the most important metric is hospitalization rate AlexSFCA May 2020 #26

No sign yet of immunity and people are dying at home. Lars39 May 2020 #28

Risk of reinfection is negligible to none. AlexSFCA May 2020 #39

Uh huh Lars39 May 2020 #40

dead virus is picked by swab test AlexSFCA May 2020 #41

But Frances May 2020 #27

That has nothing to do with states reopening. Captain Stern May 2020 #29

+1, this is a real good point; The reopening should be based on a quantitative number to 1 million uponit7771 May 2020 #33

They have been going down. Ms. Toad May 2020 #36

My real sympathy in all this is for healthcare workers and morticians. gordianot May 2020 #30