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Strategic Hospital Runs

2020-05-08

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Hospital runs are of primary concern in a pandemic and are especially devastating when nonsevere patients crowd out severe ones. We study a rushing game among patients for a given infection pattern and find that hospital crowding out can result from strategic behaviors. Even if immediate treatment is unnecessary, nonsevere patients may nonetheless seek treatment to obtain future priority of treatment in case their...

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Literature Corpus work: b9385a41-5b7f-59a5-bf17-78d5572e26e4
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3596115

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