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To offer some perspective, in Montgomery County, just north of Philly (a suburban metro county harder hit than most), 10% of positive tests have been admitted t

To offer some perspective, in Montgomery County, just north of Philly (a suburban metro county harder hit than most), 10% of positive tests have been admitted to hospital, and 2.6% of positive tests have gone on ventilators. So the subpopulation needing remdesivir is probably less than 5% of the positive cases (or 1250 of the 25,000 who tested positive here). BTW, the county population is 900,000.

koheripbal 7y ago
Right, but it isn't a random sampling of that population that ends up on ventilators. For men over 65 with hypertension, it's about 50% of those who test positive. ...so a targeted application of anti-virals is definitely worthwhile.