Massachusetts Hospitalization Rates over Time

I was doing an analysis of hospitalizations in Massachusetts compared to the number of infections over time.
So far, in Massachusetts, a total of 15,372 people have been hospitalized with Covid since the beginning of the pandemic.
We've had 331,000 cases so far.
That's a hospitalization rate of 4.6%, calculated over the full length of the pandemic.
If you break up the time though, the numbers are dramatically different comparing early on to now.
On June 2 we hit 10,000 hospitalized.
At that point we had 97,539 cases.
So we got 10,000 hospitalizations out of the first 100,000 cases and then 5,372 out of the next 230,000 cases.
Given this, the hospitalization rate went from 10% to 2.3%.
Therefore, if you get covid NOW in Massachusetts your chances of going to the hospital have dropped over 75% compared to the beginning of the pandemic. This is good.

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