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cord-299465-c7ki3061	Mallow, P. J.	When Second Best Might be the Best: Using Hospitalization Data to Monitor the Novel Coronavirus Pandemic	2020-05-18		.txt	text/plain	1672	111	51	The novel coronavirus' high rate of asymptomatic transmission combined with a lack of testing kits call for a different approach to monitor its spread and severity. A proposed threshold of a declining 7-day moving average over a 14-day period, "7&14" was set to communicate when a wave of the novel coronavirus may have passed. However, given the sample bias reflected in prioritized testing and asymptomatic transmission, we propose that COVID-19 hospitalizations combined with a capacity measure offer the best approach to measuring trends in COVID-19 infections. However they do not A 7-day moving average was calculated by adding the number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients over each seven-day window and dividing by the time period. The number COVID-19 occupied hospital beds is shown from January 7 to May 11, 2020 with the 7-day moving average. The number daily COVID-19 hospitalizations are shown from January 7 to May 11, 2020 with the 7-day moving average.	./cache/cord-299465-c7ki3061.txt	./txt/cord-299465-c7ki3061.txt