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

2020-11-02

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Background: 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.<br><br>Methods: We match daily death registry data for almost 1,500 municipalities in Lombardy, Italy, to data on geographical location of all ICU beds in the r...

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9c765f18-f23b-5bfa-b25e-f0bf8c1f1088
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10.2139/ssrn.3720420
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