Nature Communications (Feb 2021)

Orchestrating performance of healthcare networks subjected to the compound events of natural disasters and pandemic

  • Emad M. Hassan,
  • Hussam N. Mahmoud

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21581-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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COVID-19 might occur together with other natural disasters but frameworks to quantify collective effects is lacking. Here, the authors investigated the readiness of a healthcare system in the face of wildfire during an epidemic by assuming the COVID-19 pandemic occurred around the same time with the Camp Fire case in Butte Country California 2018/2019.