Projecting the transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 through postpandemic period

Re:Projecting the transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 throug... by guscost on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @02:40PM (#22881374)

There are no numbers. Nobody has ever bothered to measure it separately from pneumonia. It’s hardly ever tested for or listed under cause of death, even when it’s obviously a factor. Once things change in the aftermath of all of this, we will see if your instinct is correct.

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Re:Projecting the transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 throug... by guscost on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @05:44PM (#22883444)

Well it turns out I'm wrong about this, there are some studies with numbers but they're pretty rare:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3655081/

> Twenty-two percent of all subjects with isolated coronavirus were hospitalized, but in the population aged ≥60 years this increased to 73%. While our study design precludes the determination of exact hospitalization rates as a result of coronavirus infections, the hospitalization rates were similar to those for influenza.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4181476/

> The high proportion of non-influenza infection in this study (72%) underscores the importance of non-influenza viral infection in contributing to severe illness necessitating hospital and ICU admission in adults, as has been found by others.

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