Keywords: Covid-19, hospitalized, Germany, plot, python
This plot shows the number of Covid-19 cases per week, the number hospitalized, and number of deaths, in Germany for weeks 10 to 36 2020:
The data is taken from this report:
https://www.rki.de/DE/Content/InfAZ/N/Neuartiges_Coronavirus/Situationsberichte/Sept_2020/2020-09-08-en.pdf
from the
Robert Koch Institute,
a German federal agency responsible for disease control.
Table 3 is extracted from the .pdf to the .csv table below,
and plotted with the python program which is also below.
The RKI report says, "In most cases, the disease is mild." In weeks 31 - 36 (27 July - 6 September),
9 7 6 5 5 5 % of the cases were hospitalized
91 93 94 95 95 95 % were not.
Seems to me that concentrating on the 5 % of the cases who enter hospital would be more meaningful (aussagekräftig) than looking at all cases, over 90 % of them mild.
What percentage of hospital beds are occupied by covid-19 patients ? Germany has a total of ~ 498,000 hospital beds, see statista .
The main goal is to identify hot spots and possible causes sooner. Hospitalization data per city and region (401 in Germany) would certainly help, but I see only totals for all Germany, from RKI on Tuesdays. Does anyone know of finer-grain data for other countries ?
"The purpose of statistics is insight, not numbers."
— paraphrasing R.W. Hamming.
Silly plots: the one on the front page of the Süddeutsche Zeitung from 22-23 August is particularly creative.
cheers
— denis-bz-py t-online.de 9 September