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King, Snohomish, Pierce data combined ( based on date of illness onset )
Scoreboard looks good ( hospitalization and deaths ). Covid moving the ball well, but failing in the red zone. Source of data? WA Dept of Health
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The rate of positives in king county has stayed largely between 3-4% which is not horrible and definitely reversible.
March picked off a ton of the really weak, exposed bad policies in NY around nursing homes that aren’t being repeated.
Not only is testing higher in volume, it’s being collected completely differently. Just looking at King County, hospitals/positive cases were like 20% in March. Positive cases and hospitalizations were completely correlated in real time as people who were truly sick were getting tested as they entered hospitals, there was no lag.
It’s totally different now. Demographics aside, it implies that had the testing method been the same in early March as it is now, we would have had at least 5 times as many cases as what is actually reported to get to a similar hospital rate with 1 week lag less than 5%, that we are seeing now with long lead testing in place. So the spike in cases that is being seen now, which is like 2/3 as big as the late March peak in total positive cases is in reality about 15% of what the early March peak would have looked like with the same methods in place.
For fucks sake
Grocer accepted numbers.
Yeah hospitals aren't even close to being overwhelmed in Washington anywhere except maybe Yakima although infections are now way down there. Only now are hospitals in Florida filling up and Washington didn't open up until like a month later. So there is still time here to actually get it under reasonable control so schools can have a safe opening, which is the most important thing right now but cannot be forced.
Illnesses are not 1:1 hospitalizations
I keep asking but no one seems to know.
The fucking European numbers are on par with the fucking US and in some cases are worse
Fuck off