re: Louisiana COVID-19 - April 2, 2020 Update: 9,150 cases - 51,086 tested - 310 dead

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There were 175 available last week.

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The increase is most likely because they are receiving some from the feds and vendors. Which is obviously good but not necessarily indicative of people coming off ventilators either by death or rehabilitation. People with the virus that require a ventilator are usually on one for two to three weeks per the numbers being tracked in New York (which has the benefit of a larger sample size).

My major point is: tracking active but un-hospitalized cases is largely irrelevant, yet people seem obsessed by it.