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Abstract

European healthcare systems face extreme pressure from coronavirus disease (COVID-19). We relate country-specific accumulated COVID-19 deaths (intensity approach) and active COVID-19 cases (magnitude approach) to measures of healthcare system capacity: hospital beds, healthcare workers and healthcare expenditure. Modelled by the intensity approach with a composite measure for healthcare capacity, the countries experiencing the highest pressure on 25 March 2020 - relative to Italy on 11 March - were Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and France (www.covid-hcpressure.org).

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Indications for healthcare surge capacity in European countries facing an exponential increase in coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases, March 2020
<p class="citation"> <span>Citation style for this article:</span> <span class="meta-value authors"> <a href="/search?value1=Frederik+Verelst&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Verelst Frederik</a>, <a href="/search?value1=Elise+Kuylen&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Kuylen Elise</a>, <a href="/search?value1=Philippe+Beutels&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Beutels Philippe</a></span>. Indications for healthcare surge capacity in European countries facing an exponential increase in coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases, March 2020. <a href="/content/ecdc">Euro Surveill.</a> 2020;25(13):pii=2000323. <a href="https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.13.2000323" title="doi link" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.13.2000323</a> <span class="ES_Article_citation"> <span class="generated">Received</span>: 14 Mar 2020;&nbsp;&nbsp; <span class="generated">Accepted</span>: 02 Apr 2020 </span> </p>
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