One of the issues of fast spread is that hospitalizations and deaths lag behind infections for a few weeks. If you don't correct for it, it's easy to see "10x

One of the issues of fast spread is that hospitalizations and deaths lag behind infections for a few weeks. If you don't correct for it, it's easy to see "10x as many cases but few deaths" just because cases went up so quickly that deaths didn't start yet. Of course, this can be corrected for, and I'd expect a good study to do so - but I would NOT trust a typical news article to make the distinction, nor would I trust it to skip the temptation to misinterpret the study for a more interesting headline.