[2006alum]

How bout hospitalizations?  I’m continually frustrated by how difficult it becomes to determine if hospitalization rates are rising or falling. To me it’s a pretty important question. It’s particularly important in relationship to the percentage of hospital beds in any particular area. Again I keep coming back to the original discussion regarding shelter in place and much of it was centered on not overloading hospitals.

 To me that number is more important than the number of cases – for the obvious reason that those do not address the severity of of the cases.

Totally agree. It's insanely frustrating that most of the numbers that should be most important in guiding our policy choices (hospitalization rate, hospitalization utilization, % of recovered patients with long-term complications) are nearly entirely unavailable to the public. It was one thing to shut down in mid-March while we figured things out, but we're now almost three months later and we seem to have very little new data to work with apart from a few studies that seem to suggest masks + social distancing + outdoor activity mitigate transmission. Really?!?

[2006alum]

How bout hospitalizations?  I’m continually frustrated by how difficult it becomes to determine if hospitalization rates are rising or falling. To me it’s a pretty important question. It’s particularly important in relationship to the percentage of hospital beds in any particular area. Again I keep coming back to the original discussion regarding shelter in place and much of it was centered on not overloading hospitals.

 To me that number is more important than the number of cases – for the obvious reason that those do not address the severity of of the cases.

Totally agree. It's insanely frustrating that most of the numbers that should be most important in guiding our policy choices (hospitalization rate, hospitalization utilization, % of recovered patients with long-term complications) are nearly entirely unavailable to the public. It was one thing to shut down in mid-March while we figured things out, but we're now almost three months later and we seem to have very little new data to work with apart from a few studies that seem to suggest masks + social distancing + outdoor activity mitigate transmission. Really?!?