Re:Covid-19: the harms of exaggerated information and non‐ev...
by ineedasername on Monday March 23, 2020 @10:02PM
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It doesn't seem like hospitalization rates are being as consistently tracked. Or if they are, not disseminated. My state's official page tracks changes daily, but doesn't include hospitalizations.
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Re:Covid-19: the harms of exaggerated information and non‐ev...
by acqq on Monday March 23, 2020 @10:13PM
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There are countries that do report:
"17 March: the total number of cases was 1705, of which 314 patients had been admitted to the hospital"
That was week ago, now it's 1230 people in the hospital, or 4 times more. So I expect 5000 at the end of the next week in the Netherlands. The growth of the infection by the novel virus is exponential, until strong enough measures start to work, and the Netherlands wasn't (due to the politicians) ready to seriously enforce them.
So it's around 20%, once one has more than a few cases. And that's far from being a small percentage.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_t...