More People Are Getting Infected With Covid-19, but Fewer Ventilators Are Needed. Why?

Five possible explanations, with lots of unknowns and caveats

Elad Simchayoff
Elemental
Published in
5 min readJun 30, 2020

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Doctor with ventilator.
Photo: Javier Matheu/Unsplash

As of June 22, the world had 3.75 million active Covid-19 cases. Among those, around 2% were serious or critical, and an estimated 1.5% of those were being treated with ventilators.

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Elad Simchayoff
Elemental

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