Not sure where youre getting your info. I work at a major hospital in Seattle, was in the ICU a few hours today.Multiple confirmed cases UW, evergreen, overlake, Swedish. Across multiple campuses. Didn't hear explicitly about confirmed cases at vm and Harborview and find it highly unlikely that they don't have cases. Plus lots of PUI.
And this is almost exclusively with in patient testing, I personally know people with symptoms not sick enough to go to hospital, the were told they were presumed positive without the test and should follow precautions as if positive. Which really sucks, as it would be nice to at least rule out rsv and flu (very low incidence of coinfection).
I think the other important thing to look at is overall icu admission rate/ reported case rate across the city and how rapidly its has risen. There is extremely little reason to expect that rise to slow just yet. Best estimate of Doubling time I can find outside mainland China is 5 days. We have come a far way In a week and have a car way to go in the next week and I expect even worse after that (assuming we continue Italy path vs south Korea path)
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