• Cheng Zhao, Burcu Tepekule, Nicola G Criscuolo, Pedro D Wendel Garcia, Matthias P Hilty, Risc-Icu Consortium Investigators In Switzerlandsee manuscript., Thierry Fumeaux, and Thomas Van Boeckel.
• Health Geography and Policy Group, ETH Zürich, Switzerland.
• Swiss Med Wkly. 2020 May 4; 150: w20277.

AbstractIn Switzerland, the COVID-19 epidemic is progressively slowing down owing to “social distancing” measures introduced by the Federal Council on 16 March 2020. However, the gradual ease of these measures may initiate a second epidemic wave, the length and intensity of which are difficult to anticipate. In this context, hospitals must prepare for a potential increase in intensive care unit (ICU) admissions of patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome. Here, we introduce icumonitoring.ch, a platform providing hospital-level projections for ICU occupancy. We combined current data on the number of beds and ventilators with canton-level projections of COVID-19 cases from two S-E-I-R models. We disaggregated epidemic projection in each hospital in Switzerland for the number of COVID-19 cases, hospitalisations, hospitalisations in ICU, and ventilators in use. The platform is updated every 3-4 days and can incorporate projections from other modelling teams to inform decision makers with a range of epidemic scenarios for future hospital occupancy.

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