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guffguy89 posted...

I feel like deaths/hospitalizations should be the key factor rather than positive cases.

governments have typically been using hospitalizations as the key measure.

With an eye on positive % as this is one of the key indicators of increases spread.

Deaths are a bad stat to look at because if you react to deaths you are already too late due to the incubation period. Even hospitilizations are a bit laggy, hence the need to look at stats that the virus is spreading faster.

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