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[–] 24775725? 1 point -1 points (+0|-1) ago 

Arguably the hospitalization rate, and hospital capacity levels, is more important than the death rate, because if that goes over-capacity the death rate will rise. But I've never seen that data published except in snippets about particular areas.

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[–] 24776521? ago 

That isn't useful. They emptied the hospitals for awhile delaying procedures. The hospitals should be filling up the capacity from those cases.

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[–] 24780292? 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Well, that's just it. How much excess capacity is there? How much is in use? Without those numbers and looking at their trends there's no way to make an intelligent decision.

The idea of "flattening the curve" is arguably sound, but the more you flatten it the longer it gets. Ideally you'd want to allow for infections up until the point where the hospitals fill up. Otherwise you're locking down forever.