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Does anyone know of a source for hospitalisation numbers by country? I know some states in the USA provide this (https://covidtracking.com/data/ https://covidtr
by friendlyghost 7y ago
Does anyone know of a source for hospitalisation numbers by country? I know some states in the USA provide this (https://covidtracking.com/data/ https://covidtracking.com/data/) and some countries in Europe do the same, but I can't find a site that collects all this data.
It seems to me that if you want to eliminate the effect of the totally different testing strategies (which moreover vary substantially over time), then hospitalisation numbers are far more indicative of the spread than positive test results. At least in the sense that you can compare them on different days.
- mzs 7y agoI think "influenza-like illness (ILI) and severe acute respiratory infections (SARI)"* numbers would be the best, it would remove testing differences and could be compared to expected numbers from prior years. In the US states send the data to the National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP) but I can't find a public source for the numbers that IL sends. Here are some plots that I make for IL (a state that does not report hospitalizations yet but will likely do so starting some point this week): https://msliczniak.github.io/COVID19IL/plots/index.html https://msliczniak.github.io/COVID19IL/plots/index.html * https://www.who.int/influenza/surveillance_monitoring/ili_sari_surveillance_case_definition/en/ https://www.who.int/influenza/surveillance_monitoring/ili_sa...