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Honestly, the most important metric is deaths, and from what I can see, the SF Bay Area has done relatively well in that metric. No overcrowded hospitals, for

Honestly, the most important metric is deaths, and from what I can see, the SF Bay Area has done relatively well in that metric. No overcrowded hospitals, for example.

xivzgrev 7y ago
yes, but it lags 2-3 weeks behind confirmed cases
calebsurfs 7y ago
To me the hospitalization rate is most important. * Overcrowded hospitals is what leads to large jumps in fatality rates. * It only lags the date of infection by about a week. * It also isn't subject to external factors like availability of tests. (Though availability of hospital beds is a factor later on)
- andfrob 7y ago
  Agreed! Still not available much on a county level in the San Francisco Bay Area :(
- Jommi 7y ago
  Yes, this is very important. But one should not forget also the avg. hospitalization time (which will go down once we have clear procedures for treating COVID in different stage)
Jommi 7y ago
In the end, yes deaths are most important, but in order to make temporal decisions that affect that number, we need infection-related data first.