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A significant percentage of (probably 2 - 20%) of the cases require hospitalization.

As a point of reference, there are typically about 1000 free hospital beds[1] in the state of Kansas, for a population of 2.9M.

http://www.kdheks.gov/cphp/download/KS_PF_Plan.pdf page 22

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These rates are taking the number of confirmed cases and dividing by the number of hospitalizations. The problem is that minor cases usually don’t get detected so they don’t get included in the denominator. A single confirmed case might correspond to a thousand infections. It’s too early to know.

Thanks for the elaborations! Very informative.

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