Why do increases in certain hospital capacity inputs during non-pandemic conditions increase the number of fatalities during pandemic conditions?
Because our core data method links virtually every calculation to one another. For example, if the user raises bed capacity under non-pandemic conditions, without accordingly adjusting the number of ventilators available, they are actually raising the required number of ventilators needed but are not providing the hospital or region with the additional resources to compensate. It would be as if a hospital added more beds with the intent of admitting more patients but did not procure any of the other resources needed to care for the additional patients. Panalysis picks up these shortages and patients that need a ventilator but do not have one become fatalities.
