It is actually hard even to make sense out of hospitalization numbers. In my country, hospitalized people are counted as "positive hospitalized" even if they ar

It is actually hard even to make sense out of hospitalization numbers. In my country, hospitalized people are counted as "positive hospitalized" even if they are positive (due to mandatory test prior to admission) but had to go to the hospital for a completely different reason. Likewise, a region during August mandated mandatory hospitalization for most of the people positive to the virus, therefore inflating hospitalization numbers. Unless reporting is either standardized (unlikely) or harmonized (possible) it is always going to be hard to make sense of the numbers.