Evaluation of the Anticipated Burden of COVID-19 on Hospital-Based Healthcare Services Across the United States.
Rohan KheraSnigdha JainZhenqiu LinJoseph R RossHarlan M KrumholzPublished in: medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences (2020)
The COVID-19 pandemic is likely to overwhelm the limited number of inpatient and ICU beds for the US population. Hospitals in half of US states would exceed capacity if less than 0.2% of the state population requires hospitalization in any given month.