Author: Charles C Branas; Andrew Rundle; Sen Pei; Wan Yang; Brendan G Carr; Sarah Sims; Alexis Zebrowski; Ronan Doorley; Neil Schluger; James W Quinn; Jeffrey Shaman
Title: Flattening the curve before it flattens us: hospital critical care capacity limits and mortality from novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV2) cases in US counties Document date: 2020_4_6
ID: b23301ac_27
Snippet: As has been often discussed, unless the epidemic curve of COVID-19 cases is flattened over an extended period of time, the global pandemic, and the US COVID-19 epidemic which is now the world's largest, will cause a shortage of critical care beds and drive up otherwise preventable deaths. 35 Despite this ominous forecast, the current paper has demonstrated the potential value of preventive actions to flatten the epidemic curve, as well as the val.....
Document: As has been often discussed, unless the epidemic curve of COVID-19 cases is flattened over an extended period of time, the global pandemic, and the US COVID-19 epidemic which is now the world's largest, will cause a shortage of critical care beds and drive up otherwise preventable deaths. 35 Despite this ominous forecast, the current paper has demonstrated the potential value of preventive actions to flatten the epidemic curve, as well as the value of exercising extraordinary surge capacity measures to increase access to hospital critical care for severely ill COVID-19 patients.
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