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To me the hospitalization rate is most important.

* Overcrowded hospitals is what leads to large jumps in fatality rates.

* It only lags the date of infection by about a week.

* It also isn't subject to external factors like availability of tests. (Though availability of hospital beds is a factor later on)

Agreed! Still not available much on a county level in the San Francisco Bay Area :(

Yes, this is very important. But one should not forget also the avg. hospitalization time (which will go down once we have clear procedures for treating COVID in different stage)

In the end, yes deaths are most important, but in order to make temporal decisions that affect that number, we need infection-related data first.

yes, but it lags 2-3 weeks behind confirmed cases