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By
NICK GOSNELL
Hutch
Post
HUTCHINSON,
Kan. —&nbsp;A free-market policy group in Kansas is attempting to <a href="https://kansaspolicy.org/covid/">make publicly available</a> statistics on hospitalizations and deaths from COVID-19 easier for Kansans to digest.What we've tried to do is put things in perspective," said Dave Trabert, CEO of the Kansas Policy Institute. "There's charts here, for example, there's one showing the new weekly cases across the state of Kansas and it's certainly showing an uptick. At the same time that's going up, you see the mortality rate falling."The Kansas Policy Institute's COVID-19 Information Center has information on:1. Comparative trends – cases, hospitalizations, and deaths2. Cases, deaths, mortality rate and infection rate by county3. Cases and deaths in Kansas nursing homes and other clusters4. Hospitalization and death rate trends in Kansas5. Hospital beds available in Kansas and regional states6. Cases and deaths by state7. Pneumonia, COVID, and flu deaths8. COVID economic impact"On July 6, there were almost 17,000 cases and a little over 1200 people hospitalized, so it was a cumulative rate of 7.31%," Trabert said. "That's down to 5.37%. This is cumulative. What's happened in between there that's brought that down? Only about 4% of the cases that have developed required hospitalization."This is consistent with the hypothesis of Hutchinson Regional Medical Center pulmonologist Dr. Mohammed Al-Halawani earlier this month that it appears that COVID-19 is <a href="https://hutchpost.com/posts/79d51c33-f810-40f7-95b9-58c16fb51fbf">more infectious now than it was earlier in the year, but less severe</a>, particularly for those without underlying comorbidities.

Kansas Policy Institute providing COVID-19 statistics