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> In the last 24 hours 40 more people were hospitalised with covid-19 Without context this doesn't sound super alarming. In a country of 10 Million, at ostensi
by version_five 5y ago
> In the last 24 hours 40 more people were hospitalised with covid-19
Without context this doesn't sound super alarming. In a country of 10 Million, at ostensibly the peak of a wave of infection, 40 people per day are hospitalized. How does that differ from seasonal flu? Or from regular variations in hospitalization? It sounds like it could be a rounding error...
- belter 5y agoTable "Total Coronavirus Deaths in Portugal" helps a little bit with the context as it goes back to 15 Feb 2020 https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/portugal/ https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/portugal/
- mint2 5y agoWow last winters peak prior to vaccines was brutal in daily deaths. So far it’s lower by orders of magnitude, hope it’s just not a factor of timing since deaths lag cases.
- belter 5y agoProgram ramp up was of Nov/Dec 2020 https://www.ft.com/content/1b9f5dd0-0ddb-449d-b11d-f27998502d7d https://www.ft.com/content/1b9f5dd0-0ddb-449d-b11d-f27998502...
- NackerHughes 5y agoAny chance of a non-paywalled version?
- belter 5y agohttps://archive.is/FhnlE https://archive.is/FhnlE
- NackerHughes 5y agoThanks!
- phillipseamore 5y agoAnd OWD completely disagrees with the articles assumption. https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&time=2020-03-01..latest&uniformYAxis=0&pickerSort=asc&pickerMetric=location&Metric=Cases+and+deaths&Interval=7-day+rolling+average&Relative+to+Population=true&Color+by+test+positivity=false&country=~PRT https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor...
- belter 5y agoMaybe I am missing something, but not seeing in what disagrees, also note OWD is per million.