March 1, 2021

Orchestrating Performance of Healthcare Networks Subjected to the Compound Events of Natural Disasters and Pandemic

Category: Article Summary

Topic: Public Health Policy and Practice

Keywords (Tags): public health

• In the event of combined wildfires and the COVID epidemic, applying restrictive measures, protecting shelter residents, and expanding the healthcare capacity by using non-acute beds could be helpful mitigation strategies according to a modeling study. The study used Butte Country, California as a representative community and coupled the 2018 Camp Fire that occurred in Paradise with the current 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. Based upon these inputs, a susceptible exposed infectious removed (SEIR) model combining wildfire and COVID-19 data was used to quantify the collective impacts of such events on healthcare systems and evaluate different strategies for managing patient demand.

Hassan and Mahmoud. (Dec 26, 2021). Orchestrating Performance of Healthcare Networks Subjected to the Compound Events of Natural Disasters and Pandemic. Nature Communications. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21581-x