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What happened in Florida?

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Key facts

  • Disease

    COVID-19

  • Start & end year

    N/A

  • Known Financial Commitments (USD)

    $0

  • Funder

    Yale University

  • Principal Investigator

    Olga Morozova, Zehang Richard Li, Soheil Eshghi, Margret Erlendsdottir, Jinghao Sun, Forrest Crawford

  • Research Location

    United States of America

  • Lead Research Institution

    N/A

  • Research Priority Alignment

    N/A

  • Research Category

    Epidemiological studies

  • Research Subcategory

    Disease transmission dynamics

  • Special Interest Tags

    N/A

  • Study Type

    Unspecified

  • Clinical Trial Details

    N/A

  • Broad Policy Alignment

    Pending

  • Age Group

    Not Applicable

  • Vulnerable Population

    Not applicable

  • Occupations of Interest

    Not applicable

Abstract

The COVID-19 epidemic has grown rapidly in Florida, with the greatest concentration in Broward and Miami-Dade counties. Health officials have warned that hospitals may soon be overwhelmed with patients requiring intensive care and artificial respiration. Governor Ron DeSantis recently issued a stay-at-home order, roughly 2 weeks after similarly impacted states issued the same mandate. This project seeks to estimate the number of excess hospitalizations and deaths due to COVID-19 that resulted from this delay in implementation of public health intervention.