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SUBMITTER: Jit M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7219029 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Jit Mark M Jombart Thibaut T Nightingale Emily S ES Endo Akira A Abbott Sam S Edmunds W John WJ
Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin 20200501 18
An exponential growth model was fitted to critical care admissions from two surveillance databases to determine likely coronavirus disease (COVID-19) case numbers, critical care admissions and epidemic growth in the United Kingdom before the national lockdown. We estimate, on 23 March, a median of 114,000 (95% credible interval (CrI): 78,000-173,000) new cases and 258 (95% CrI: 220-319) new critical care reports, with 527,000 (95% CrI: 362,000-797,000) cumulative cases since 16 February. ...[more]