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> In the last 24 hours 40 more people were hospitalised with covid-19

Without context this doesn't sound super alarming. In a country of 10 Million, at ostensibly the peak of a wave of infection, 40 people per day are hospitalized. How does that differ from seasonal flu? Or from regular variations in hospitalization? It sounds like it could be a rounding error...

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Table "Total Coronavirus Deaths in Portugal" helps a little bit with the context as it goes back to 15 Feb 2020

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/portugal/

Wow last winters peak prior to vaccines was brutal in daily deaths. So far it’s lower by orders of magnitude, hope it’s just not a factor of timing since deaths lag cases.

Program ramp up was of Nov/Dec 2020

https://www.ft.com/content/1b9f5dd0-0ddb-449d-b11d-f27998502...

Any chance of a non-paywalled version?

https://archive.is/FhnlE

Thanks!

And OWD completely disagrees with the articles assumption.

https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor...

Maybe I am missing something, but not seeing in what disagrees, also note OWD is per million.

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