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How Healthcare Congestion Increases Covid-19 Mortality: Evidence from Lombardy, Italy*

2020-10-29

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<h4>Background</h4> The Covid-19 pandemic has caused generous and well-developed healthcare systems to collapse. This paper quantifies how much system congestion may have increased mortality rates, using distance to the ICU as a proxy for access to emergency care. <h4>Methods</h4> We match daily death registry data for almost 1,500 municipalities in Lombardy, Italy, to data on geographical location of all ICU beds...

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Literature Corpus work: 846be939-2a6d-529f-a95e-c65c725246ec
DOI: 10.1101/2020.10.27.20221085

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