Tuesday, August 25, 2020

Failure to 'flatten the curve' may kill more people than we thought


https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-08/uow-ft082120.php

News Release 24-Aug-2020
University of Washington

New research by the University of Minnesota and the University of Washington finds that every six additional ICU beds or seven additional non-ICU beds filled by COVID-19 patients leads to one additional COVID-19 death over the following week.

"A spike in hospitalization naturally leads to more deaths, but these deaths may not only come from those who are hospitalized, but also from those who should have been hospitalized but were not," said co-author Anirban Basu, a UW professor of health economics.


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