Alliance for Pandemic Preparedness

March 26, 2020

Estimating the maximum daily number of incident COVID-19 cases manageable by a healthcare system.

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  • The COVID-19 Acute and Intensive Care Resource Tool (CAIC-RT) is capable of estimating the maximum daily number of incident COVID-19 cases that a Healthcare system could manage based on age-adjusted case distribution and severity data from the US. 
  • This tool can help planners determine a sustainable threshold for resource utilization, and is available online at https://caic-rt.shinyapps.io/CAIC-RT. 

Giannakeas et al. (Mar 25, 2020). Estimating the maximum daily number of incident COVID-19 cases manageable by a healthcare system. Pre-print downloaded Mar 26 from https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.03.25.20043711