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Just read an interesting article using ICU admissions as a proxy. Of course it does lag, but it may be more consistent than hospital admissions. http://medrxi
by projektfu 7y ago
Just read an interesting article using ICU admissions as a proxy. Of course it does lag, but it may be more consistent than hospital admissions.
http://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2020.04.13.20063388 http://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2020.04.13.20063388
- dmurray 7y agoIt does saturate at some point, though. If you're turning patients away who are in need of ICU treatment (as some Italian hospitals were), your ICU admissions will be constant and equal to your rate of release from ICU, so it will appear that you've "flattened the curve" even if the number of sick people continues to grow exponentially.
- projektfu 7y agoTrue, the paper talks about patients needing ICU, if you can get that statistic instead.