Open geospatial work to support health systems' capacity (providers, supplies, ventilators, beds, meds) to effectively care for rapidly growing COVID19 patient needs
Equally worrisome is the lack of adequate PPE for frontline health care workers, including respirators, gloves, face shields, gowns, and hand sanitizer. In Italy, health care workers experienced high rates of infection and death 3 partly because of inadequate access to PPE. And recent estimates here in the United States suggest that we will need far more respirators and surgical masks than are currently available.4
Beyond increasing the supply, a crucial role for the government is to coordinate efforts to ensure that the areas hardest hit at any given time are receiving needed equipment. Individual state governments and health care systems are currently competing for resources, and those resources are not necessarily being distributed on the basis of need. Surges of Covid-19 cases are unlikely to happen in all parts of the country at once, so there is an opportunity to coordinate the filling of gaps.
Health providers are now using #GetusPPE movement (website) on social media to track the supply. It'd be great to track if we can find any dataset reflect PPE supply and shortage.
To answer questions like:
who are the main suppliers, and what are the supply capacities?
How the PPEs are distributed among regions, hospitals?
PPE shortage article
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2006141
Health providers are now using #GetusPPE movement (website) on social media to track the supply. It'd be great to track if we can find any dataset reflect PPE supply and shortage.
To answer questions like: