Spatiotemporal analysis of medical resource deficiencies in the U.S. under COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was first identified in December 2019 in Wuhan, China as an infectious disease, and has quickly resulted in an ongoing pandemic. A data-driven approach was developed to estimate medical resource deficiencies due to medical burdens at county level during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study duration was mainly from February 15, 2020 to May 1, 2020 in the U.S. Multiple data sources were used to extract local population, hospital beds, critical care staff, COVID-19 confirmed case numbers, and hospitalization data at county level. We estimated the average length of stay from hospitalization data at state level, and calculated the hospitalized rate at both state and county level. Then, we developed two medical resource deficiency indices that measured the local m

SUBMITTER: Sha D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7556467 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature