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Charlottesville, Va., Dec. 15, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) As COVID-19 cases reach record numbers and are anticipated to escalate with increased holiday travel, the University of Virginia Biocomplexity Institute has launched a national COVID-19 Medical Resource Demand Dashboard that can project weekly COVID-19 hospitalization rates and the percentage of occupied hospital beds up to six weeks in advance. This groundbreaking prediction tool provides a clearer picture of anticipated demand, enabling local public health officials including emergency managers and hospital administrators to better anticipate where and when action will be needed to mitigate the impact on medical facilities.
This dashboard is the only one of its kind to combine multiple forecasting models to project future hospitalization rates and bed occupancy, and that allows users to adjust projections based on multiple factors (including the percentage of non-COVID hospital patients and the average duration of pa