Unfortunately it doesn’t let you modify the assumptions about disease severity or number of undetected cases. It assumes that the majority of cases have been undetected (which seems questionable) and that 4.31% of cases are severe (which seems low even if the majority are undetected). It gives a case fatality rate of 0.97%, which doesn’t seem to depend on any of the other parameters.
In their baseline scenario (for a small Swiss city with good infection control) 0.26% of the population dies.
With no infection control this goes up to 0.76% of the population dying, with no change in the CFR.
If you also increase the length of a hospital stay from 10 days to 20 days, the total number of deaths actually decreases slightly because the spread is slower. So while the graph is a nice way to see how long hospitals will be overwhelmed in different scenarios, it doesn’t show you anything useful about how this affects outcomes. I would love to be able to add in some parameters for fatality rate for severe and critical cases with/without a hospital bed.
In their baseline scenario (for a small Swiss city with good infection control)
Sad laugh. I’m in Switzerland, we have exponential growth and there’s no infection control to speak of. They just told people with non-severe symptoms to not bother getting tested. Schools are open. Haven’t seen even one person wearing a mask.
Unfortunately it doesn’t let you modify the assumptions about disease severity or number of undetected cases. It assumes that the majority of cases have been undetected (which seems questionable) and that 4.31% of cases are severe (which seems low even if the majority are undetected). It gives a case fatality rate of 0.97%, which doesn’t seem to depend on any of the other parameters.
In their baseline scenario (for a small Swiss city with good infection control) 0.26% of the population dies.
With no infection control this goes up to 0.76% of the population dying, with no change in the CFR.
If you also increase the length of a hospital stay from 10 days to 20 days, the total number of deaths actually decreases slightly because the spread is slower. So while the graph is a nice way to see how long hospitals will be overwhelmed in different scenarios, it doesn’t show you anything useful about how this affects outcomes. I would love to be able to add in some parameters for fatality rate for severe and critical cases with/without a hospital bed.
Sad laugh. I’m in Switzerland, we have exponential growth and there’s no infection control to speak of. They just told people with non-severe symptoms to not bother getting tested. Schools are open. Haven’t seen even one person wearing a mask.