[Wonder Warthog]

"I am not interested in the number of infections, it is a meaningless number."

Concur...

[firebrand]

It’s not meaningless, because it gives us the rate of increase of cases, which can then be used in a comparative ratio of the increase in cases to the rate of increase in hospitalizations and deaths.

Those ratios are about the only good news we have: the danger of hospitalizations and especially deaths is less.

Without the ratio the pieces of information by themselves are meaningless in a way.

[firebrand]

It’s not meaningless, because it gives us the rate of increase of cases, which can then be used in a comparative ratio of the increase in cases to the rate of increase in hospitalizations and deaths.

Those ratios are about the only good news we have: the danger of hospitalizations and especially deaths is less.

Without the ratio the pieces of information by themselves are meaningless in a way.