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But this finding is not extrapolated to mean that the vast majority won't require hospitalization. There's a reason. When the virus is growing exponentially, most people have just gotten the virus and haven't gone the 2-3 weeks typical for becoming so sick that you require hospitalization. Exponential growth means 3-week old cases are rare. A weekly doubling time 1/16 of the cases of the cases are three weeks old. If 1/5 of those cases require hospitalization eventually, you will wind-up with only 1/80 of those cases seeming to require hospitalization if you're just taking a survey.
Some of my references are extrapolating things (correctly) but others are citing recognized authorities. Your entire argument is basically incorrect extrapolation based on not taking into account exponential growth.
This article widely read article summarizes the quandary we're in and how to extrapolate the current data.
https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-act-today-or-peop...
People need to read it and stop with the destructive misinformation.
https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-act-today-or-peop...