An interactive tool to forecast us hospital needs in the Coronavirus 2019 pandemic

We developed an application (https://rush-covid19.herokuapp.com/) to aid US hospitals in planning their response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Our application forecasts hospital visits, admits, discharges, and needs for hospital beds, ventilators, and personal protective equipment by coupling COVID-19 predictions to models of time lags, patient carry-over, and length-of-stay. Users can choose from seven COVID-19 models, customize a large set of parameters, examine trends in testing and hospitalization, and download forecast data. The data and scripts contained herein are used to generate Figure 1 of the associated manuscript, which presents general forms of the models used by our application and presents results for each model across time.