Comparisons with the flu make people think this is a relatively minor, short illness fixed by hand washing. 2-6 weeks in the ICU, 2/3 of critical cases on ventilators... this is not the flu.
Really bad news for WA. Why?
4 in 22 deaths happened while waiting to be hospitalized in South Korea.
Up to 1 in 5 infected people will require hospitalization
Danger is not mortality rate but overwhelming health infrastructure, which causes death.
https://www.reddit.com/r/CoronavirusWA/comments/fd5b7z/good_info/ …https://twitter.com/Seattle2019nCov/status/1235254341407100928 …
"1.7 per 1,000"
This number isn't getting enough attention.
There are 1.7 community hospital beds per 1,000 people in WA.
This puts WA in the bottom five US states.
The US average of 2.4 per 1,000.
SD has 4.8.
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This is great info. Do you have links for sources?
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