The COVID-19 pandemic

[danbrotherston]

Cases are going up, but the key metric to keep an eye on is hospitalizations (acute care and ICU) and deaths. With so many people vaccinated, rising cases should not be that big of a concern as it once was so long as people are not overwhelming hospitals.

Feels to me like people say this every time and then the hospitalization rates invariably climb 4 weeks later as people get sicker, recalling that it's mostly unvaccinated people getting it and they still follow the same natural laws as every other time before.

This!