Spatiotemporal analysis of the first wave of COVID-19 hospitalisations in Birmingham, UK.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To evaluate the spatiotemporal distribution of the incidence of COVID-19 hospitalisations in Birmingham, UK during the first wave of the pandemic to support the design of public health disease control policies.

Design

A geospatial statistical model was estimated as part of a real-time disease surveillance system to predict local daily incidence of COVID-19.

Participants

All hospitalisations for COVID-19 to University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust between 1 February 2020 and 30 September 2020.

Outcome measures

Predictions of the incidence and cumulative incidence of COVID-19 hospitalisations in local areas, its weekly change and identification of predictive covariates.

Results

Peak hospitalisations occurred in the first and second w

SUBMITTER: Watson SI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8490999 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature