A dynamic modeling tool for estimating healthcare demand from the COVID19 epidemic and evaluating population-wide interventions

dc.creatorRainisch, Gabriel
dc.creatorUndurraga, Eduardo A.
dc.creatorChowell, Gerardo
dc.date.accessioned2020-07-23T19:04:53Z
dc.date.available2020-07-23T19:04:53Z
dc.date.created2020-07
dc.description.abstractenglishObjectives Public health officials need tools to assist in anticipating the healthcare resources required to confront the SARS-COV-2 pandemic. We constructed a modeling tool to aid active public health officials to estimate healthcare demand from the pandemic in their jurisdictions and to evaluate the potential impact of population-wide social-distancing interventions. Methods The tool uses an SEIR compartmental model to project the pandemic’s local spread. Users input case counts, healthcare resources, and select intervention strategies to evaluate. Outputs include the number of infections and deaths with and without intervention, and the demand for hospital and critical care beds and ventilators relative to existing capacity. We illustrate the tool using data from three regions of Chile. Results Our scenarios indicate a surge in COVID-19 patients could overwhelm Chilean hospitals by June, peaking in July or August at six to 50 times the current supply of beds and ventilators. A lockdown strategy or combination of case isolation, home quarantine, social distancing of individuals >70 years, and telework interventions may keep treatment demand below capacity. Conclusions Aggressive interventions can avert substantial morbidity and mortality from COVID-19. Our tool permits rapid evaluation of locally-applicable policy scenarios and updating of results as new data become available.spa
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dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfspa
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2020.05.043spa
dc.identifier.issn1201-9712spa
dc.identifier.otherhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1201971220303507spa
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12010/11055
dc.publisherScience Directeng
dc.rights.accessrightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessspa
dc.sourcereponame:Expeditio Repositorio Institucional UJTLspa
dc.sourceinstname:Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozanospa
dc.subjectDistanciamiento socialspa
dc.subject.keywordModelspa
dc.subject.keywordCOVIDspa
dc.subject.keywordHospitalspa
dc.subject.keywordCapacityspa
dc.subject.keywordInterventionspa
dc.subject.lembSíndrome respiratorio agudo gravespa
dc.subject.lembCOVID-19spa
dc.subject.lembSARS-CoV-2spa
dc.subject.lembCoronavirusspa
dc.titleA dynamic modeling tool for estimating healthcare demand from the COVID19 epidemic and evaluating population-wide interventionsspa
dc.type.hasversioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersionspa
dc.type.localArtículospa

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