Testing and isolation to prevent overloaded healthcare facilities and reduce death rates in the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in Italy

Abstract

Bandyopadhyay, Schips et al. model the factors contributing to overloading of healthcare facilities during the first COVID-19 wave in Italy. They predict that an early test and isolate intervention could have reduced healthcare usage and death rates but would not have kept hospitalizations within pre-pandemic hospital limits.