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Yes. Both Italy and the US are below average. South Korea and Japan, currently taking extremely drastic measures like mass-closing schools, have around 5x as ma
by cjbprime 7y ago
Yes. Both Italy and the US are below average. South Korea and Japan, currently taking extremely drastic measures like mass-closing schools, have around 5x as many beds as either.
I'm in the US, but if you think that makes me think the US is prepared, you have it backwards. I'd guess that if we're not in worse shape than Italy in two weeks, we'll be very lucky.
- pmayrgundter 7y agoAgreed. For the country as a whole, I have it at 20 days until we run out of beds. Like Italy, seems reasonable to expect some areas will hit it sooner. Here's my growth equation: BedsNeeded = CurrentCases * DailyGrowthRate ^ DaysOfGrowth * SevereAndCriticalRate 708 = CurrentCases, the number of COVID-19 cases in the US as of March 9, 2020. [1] 1.6 = DailyGrowthRate, Number of today's cases / Number of yesterday's cases. [2] 20 = DaysOfGrowth, how many days to run the simulation. 0.1 = SevereAndCriticalRate, the percentage of cases requiring a hospital bed. [3] 855,919 = BedsNeeded This is based on the above-quoted 2.77 beds per 1000 people, and a US population of 327.2M people, for 906,344 beds available. [1] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/ https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/ [2] Ibid, rough average of last week's growth rate [3] Rough guess from above comments and other reading. Working sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15CRanm0MHyappT_3J1qclzPzSCoEw2ucVlzvT3euB2w/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15CRanm0MHyappT_3J1qc...
- cjbprime 7y agoAlso keep in mind that we need ICU beds (ventilators) in particular for this, and that they have some base rate of utilization unrelated to COVID-19 that isn't easily moved.