> My interpretation of that phrasing is that it refers to the risk of hospitalization from a single infection of COVID-19 That interpretation is not supported

> My interpretation of that phrasing is that it refers to the risk of hospitalization from a single infection of COVID-19 That interpretation is not supported by the source linked by GP. The risk you allude to (infection hospitalization rate) was generally reported as ~5% (it's probably halved now that half the population is vaccinated). See for example [0], the first Google hit I got, or the CDC COVID tracker [1], where reported hospitalizations divided by reported infections gives 3.6%. [0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7895685/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7895685/ [1] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/covidview/index.html https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/covidvi...