Locally Informed Modeling to Predict Hospital and Intensive Care Unit Capacity During the COVID-19 Epidemic
Locally Informed Modeling to Predict Hospital and Intensive Care Unit Capacity During the COVID-19 Epidemic
<h3></h3> <b>Background:</b> In the early phases of the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, health system leaders faced the urgent task of translating the unknown into forecasting models for hospital capacity. Our study objective was to demonstrate the application of a practical, locally informed model to estimate the hospital capacity needed …