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Also, remember that deaths are a lagging indicator.

And I'm not sure the air quality explanation makes sense.  Worse air quality might also tip someone who would have otherwise been able to recover at home into the hospital, so I'd expect hospitalizations to have gone up.

But air quality might have a benefit in further encouraging shelter-in-place.

BC

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Also, remember that deaths are a lagging indicator.

And I'm not sure the air quality explanation makes sense.  Worse air quality might also tip someone who would have otherwise been able to recover at home into the hospital, so I'd expect hospitalizations to have gone up.

But air quality might have a benefit in further encouraging shelter-in-place.

BC