Hospitalization rates, which have been a predictor of deaths to come, are spiking
n its ongoing campaign to minimize the coronavirus pandemic in the United States, the Trump Administration has repeatedly touted the fact that, while cases are skyrocketing on a national level, the number of daily deaths remain low relative to the height of the outbreak earlier this year.
In part, that’s because it takes days, weeks or even months for a person to become infected, get sick, and die of COVID-19. On average, it takes five days for a person to develop symptoms after they’re infected, although in some cases it can take as long as two weeks. In most cases, it then takes additional time for people to become so severely ill that they need to be hospitalized. It might then take days or weeks more before they die.
In Texas, hospitalizations are already increasing rapidly by the day. Deaths are rising, slowly, for now—but based on trends seen elsewhere, like in New York, they will likely soon jump up as well:
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