More COVID Wisconsin

April 13, 2020. We are most fortunate -- and, hopefully, not misled or confused -- in Wisconsin, based on the data on COVID-assigned deaths, especially as compared to other parts of the state, other parts of the United States, and the most dangerous cities, e.g., New York, Detroit, New Orleans. And the term 'COVID-assigned deaths' (CADS) refers to people who had tested positive for COVOD when they were hospitalized, i.e., they died WITH COVID, not necessarily due exclusively to COVID, given the multitude of other accompanying factors (co-morbidities) , e.g., cancer, compromised immunity, pulmonary or respiratory disease, diabetes, age.

The flattening of the curve -- meaning keeping the hospitalizations below the available hospital beds -- appears to be working very well. Per the image on the right, on April 19, Wisconsin will likely have 5,364 hospital beds and has been projected to need 405, or 1,251 in the worst case scenario. As to CADs in April, Wisconsin has been as low as two in a day to as high as twenty in a day, with the daily count bouncing up and down. Projected total deaths in the state by August 4 are 338.

So I still have my ups and downs, with downs primarily in the wee hours of the morning and ups after Hank Hilton in the morning.