An update from Seattle area: • Hospitals still seeing "manageable" caseloads • Data models suggest transmission rate has dropped from 2.7 to 1.4 • Deaths on slower trajectory than many states • “It would be grossly irresponsible to stop" distancinghttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/29/us/seattle-washington-state-coronavirus-transmission-rate.html …
Peak load on hospitals. That metric lags behind peak new cases because yesterday's cases stick around for the next couple weeks.