I know every facebook blowhard witters on about death rates and how everyone is just being a whiny snowflake, but look at those numbers from Italy. 40% of people who have it are in hospital. Forty Percent. Forty.
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It’s only misleading depending on the direction you’re approaching it from. If you say 100k people infected of whom 10k show symptoms then you can say 4,000 people in hospital. It’s a lot. 1m infections it’s 40,000 etc etc
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My point is we have no idea how many people have been infected (the denominator). So you can’t meaningfully say what percentage are hospitalized or what the mortality rate is. We just don’t have enough data yet.
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