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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One positive note.  I've been tracking the numbers pretty closely on the worldometers.info website.  The percentage of cases designed as critical has actually been declining steeply -- it was at about 18% for a long time, and now it down to 9%.  It is probably due to increased testing, but still is somewhat encouraging.  The death percentage just crept up a bit, though -- it had been remarkably steady at 6% of resolved cases (so only about 4% of all cases, but 6% of the cases that were resolved through either death or recovery) and is not at 7%.  
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Many countries seem not to be reporting the number of critical or serious cases. USA’s number has been stagnant for days. I think that statistic is not longer close to accurate.[/quote]

That you think the statistic is not longer close to accurate is entirely your opinion. Which I can't place much weight into.

I have been watching the news very carefully and reading the reputable papers. No one (so far) is reporting a critical surge of hositalization. New York has 300+ positive people in the greater NYC region but the only hospitalization I can find a record of is the first man who came down with it three weeks ago and was in critical care. He hasn't died (yet) and it's now three weeks later. Almost all the hospitalization in Seattle are related to the one nursing home where the virus broke out.

This is very encouraging so far. All the deaths, outside the Seattle nursing home, are isolated cases here and there and not connected to a pattern (ie multiple people from the same family or same office). [/quote]

Virginia has 30 cases and 10 are hospitalized, so your dismissal of the severity appears to be very wrong. 
http://www.vdh.virginia.gov/surveillance-and-investigation/novel-coronavirus/
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Virginia does NOT have 30 cases.  They have 30 confirmed positive tests, based upon the extremely limited test criteria.  They probably have more than 100 cases.  Maybe up to 1000 cases.  They aren't even reporting on the number of cases they've done,  or even what the current lag time is.  [/quote]

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