Time-dependent risk of COVID-19 death with overwhelmed health-care capacity in Japan, 2020–2022

• Published in: BMC infectious diseases Vol. 22; no. 1; pp. 933 - 10
• Main Authors: Hayashi, Katsuma, Nishiura, Hiroshi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BioMed Central Ltd 12.12.2022; BioMed Central; BMC
• Subjects: Age; Age groups; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Coronaviruses; COVID-19; COVID-19 - epidemiology; Death; Diagnosis; Epidemics; Epidemiology; Fatalities; Health care; Health risks; Health services; Hospital Bed Capacity; Hospital care; Hospital size; Hospitals; Humans; Infections; Intensive Care Units; Japan; Laboratories; Lethality; Medical electronics; Medical research; Medicine, Experimental; Mortality; Older people; Pandemics; Risk; SARS-CoV-2; SARS-CoV2; Statistical estimation; Statistics; Time dependence; Time lag; Viral diseases; Japan; SARS-CoV2; Lethality; Statistical estimation; Epidemiology; Mortality; Age

It has been descriptively argued that the case fatality risk (CFR) of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is elevated when medical services are overwhelmed. The relationship between CFR and pressure on health-care services should thus be epidemiologically explored to account for potential epidemiological...