Add hospital & ICU data for Israel

[edomt]

Given the speed of the vaccination campaign in Israel, we're considering adding hospital & ICU data for the country on our dedicated page so people can monitor how the situation evolves.

In the official API there are many variables, and we're not exactly sure which ones to use. This is what the data looks like for yesterday for example:

"date": "2021-01-21T00:00:00.000Z",
"new_hospitalized": 221,
"Counthospitalized": 2092,
"Counthospitalized_without_release": 1835,
"CountHardStatus": 1183,
"CountMediumStatus": 325,
"CountEasyStatus": 479,
"CountBreath": 318,
"CountDeath": 38,
"total_beds": 2020,
"StandardOccupancy": 1.035643564356436,
"num_visits": 5978,
"patients_home": 79060,
"patients_hotel": 1641,
"CountBreathCum": 2655,
"CountDeathCum": 4256,
"CountCriticalStatus": 400,
"CountSeriousCriticalCum": 14462,
"serious_critical_new": 160

The 4 variables we're looking for are:

• Daily hospital occupancy (number of COVID-19 patients in hospital on a given day): I think that's Counthospitalized. I'm not sure at all what Counthospitalized_without_release means and why it's lower?
• Daily new hospital admissions of COVID-19 patients: I think that's new_hospitalized
• Daily ICU occupancy (number of COVID-19 patients in intensive care on a given day): I don't think that's available exactly in this form, but we could use CountBreath if that's the total number of people currently on respirators.
• Daily new ICU admissions of COVID-19 patients: not available?

The language barrier makes it difficult for me to compare this to the official dashboard or press reports, and Google Translate is far from perfect for Hebrew. I'd appreciate it if people could confirm that those are indeed the right variables we should use.

(cc @EladHeller and @Aric5301 who have helped us in the past!)

[Aric5301]

Hey! Elad probably knows more than I know because he's experienced with this alternative dashboard for data of Israel (Judging by his GitHub profile).

I'll try to help:

• Based on the translated data from the alternative dashboard I linked, Counthospitalized is the number of COVID-19 patient in a hospital in a given day. I too am not sure what Counthospitalized_without_release means.
• new_hospitalized seems right. This figure doesn't show up in any of the dashboards so I can't make sure (Nothing to translate it from).
• I think you should use CountCriticalStatus instead of CountBreath. This figure is displayed on the official dashboard (Translated "Critical"), so I think that this is more precise to determine how many patients are in ICU, and not necessarily on respirators..
• Perhaps use serious_critical_new? This is again a figure that doesn't show up on the official dashboard so I have nothing to compare it to but it seems right.

I can email the MOH and ask them about the exact meaning of every variable. Last time I contacted them they replied within a few days.

BTW, I will happily help you translate data from Hebrew to English anytime, just contact me :)

[edomt]

Thank you @Aric5301! That's super useful.

[edomt]

This has been added to our hospital & ICU entry now: https://ourworldindata.org/covid-hospitalizations