So...what is the mortality rate down to these days?
> The UK National Health Service assumes that of Covid-19 patients who have required hospitalization, 45 percent will need ongoing medical care, 4 percent will require inpatient rehabilitation, and 1 percent will permanently require acute care. Other preliminary evidence, as well as historical research on other coronaviruses like severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), suggests that for some people, a full recovery might still be years off. For others, there may be no returning to normal.
Strokes and permanent cognitive disorder are also common:
> Blood clots that form in or reach the brain can cause a stroke. Although strokes are more typically seen in older people, strokes are now being reported even in young Covid-19 patients. In Wuhan, China, about 5 percent of hospitalized Covid-19 patients had strokes, and a similar pattern was reported with SARS.
https://www.vox.com/2020/5/8/21251899/coronavirus-long-term-...
NOTE: The state dashboard doesn't seem to specifically show the total hospitalizations, just a graph only over the last 3 months. However, on Page 19 [0] there's a breakdown of total hospitalization by ethnicity that shows a total of 111,827 cases and 11,611 hospitalizations (across all known and unknown ethnicities).
[0] https://www.mass.gov/doc/covid-19-dashboard-july-13-2020/dow...
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_health_care_refo...
(BIG CLUE: Use closed cases for estimating mortality of an illness.)
The CDC's most recent estimate is more like 0.65% and that's probably still an overestimate