COVID-19: a simple statistical model for predicting intensive care unit load in exponential phases of the disease

Abstract One major bottleneck in the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is the limited number of critical care beds. Due to the dynamic development of infections and the time lag between when patients are infected and when a proportion of them enters an intensive care unit (ICU), the need for future intensiv...

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Main Authors: Matthias Ritter, Derek V. M. Ott, Friedemann Paul, John-Dylan Haynes, Kerstin Ritter
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021-03-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-83853-2