[codeulike]

Is there anything similar for South Korea?

I found something interesting about South Korea. According to Worldometers South Korea have tested a lot more people than anyone else - see https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/covid-19-testing/

Then if you look at the Country breakdown here https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ (scroll down a bit) South Korea has 5,186 confirmed cases but only 27 are listed as Serious or Critical. This seems to go against the '20% need hospital treatment' narrative and would support the theory that there are a lot of mild cases going undetected (as SK has tested more widely than any other country).

But ... I can't find a source for that '27' Serious or Critical number.

[kijin]

South Korean here. We're testing literally everyone who has had any sort of contact with the cult that is at the center of the recent explosion of cases. Like, if you've been attending an art class run by members of the cult, you'll get a call.

If you're unrelated to the cult but want to get tested anyway, you can just show up at a drive-thru testing center (yes, that's a thing) and it will take less than 10 minutes. On-demand testing costs around $150, but it's free if you turn out to be infected or have recently been to any place where you might have picked up the virus, such as Daegu.

This system obviously picks up a lot of mild cases.

I haven't seen the 27 "Serious or Critical" figure published anywhere domestically. It might be based on an arbitrary criterion (e.g. "patient is being given oxygen") that is only used for reporting to international organizations. Meanwhile, the government has begun to move mild cases from hospitals to other facilities (where they will be quarantined) in order to make room for more severe cases that they're clearly anticipating. There have been over 30 deaths already, so it's unlikely that there are only 27 severe cases.

[codeulike]

Thanks. I'm trying to get a handle on the 'how many people need to be hospitalised' statistic because I don't think we've got any outside-of-China stats on that, and its one of the most worrying dimensions of the outbreak.

[cheschire]

Just googling for 코로나 19 맵 will give you several. The first one I saw was:

http://livecorona.co.kr/

[codeulike]

Thanks.

I found a source for the SK stats: http://ncov.mohw.go.kr/tcmBoardView.do?brdId=&brdGubun=&data...

Does 격리해제 mean something like 'Serious cases?'. Google translates it as 'isolate'

[kijin]

격리해제 means they are no longer quarantined, i.e. they are considered to be cured.

[codeulike]

Thanks

[lazylizard]

Is it because they haven't had time to become serious yet? Its still early days in s.korea compared to china? Will the proportion go up in 2-3 weeks?