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https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736(21)00947-8.pdf https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736... This study suggests

https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736(21)00947-8.pdf https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736... This study suggests about 0.5% of unvaccinated population requires hospitalization. Obviously just one study, but across about six million people, seems a decent back of the envelope guess.

cortesoft 5y ago
Yeah, and our hospitals are not prepared to have 0.5% of the population hospitalized with covid.
nradov 5y ago
So far about 2% of the US population had already been hospitalized with COVID-19 as of May 2021. The total is even higher now. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burden.html https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...
- howlong 5y ago
  6.2 million, as cited in that article, would be about 1.8% of the US population.
  - nradov 5y ago
    Right, sorry I copied the wrong number. Edited the comment above.