Hospital beds
Data on all hospital beds and curative hospital beds were derived from the Eurostat database (most recent data extracted for each country) and data on critical care beds was derived from Rhodes et al. [1]. The COVID-19 related deaths and active cases were obtained from https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/.
1. Rhodes A, Ferdinande P, Flaatten H, Guidet B, Metnitz PG, Moreno RP. The variability of critical care bed numbers in Europe. Intensive care medicine. 2012 Oct 1;38(10):1647-53.
Intensity approach
This bar chart displays the number of cumulative COVID-19 related deaths in the past 21 days relative to the base capacity of hospital beds. The country-level base capacity is represented by three types of hospital beds: “all hospital beds”, “only curative hospital beds” and “only critical care beds”. The data is normalized to the situation in Italy on 11 March, 2020. As such, a score of 1 for a specific country and measure today, represents a pressure similar to Italy on 11 March on the base capacity of this country. Click on items in legend to toggle display of categories and/or hover over the bars to display the numbers.
Magnitude approach
This bar chart displays the number of active reported COVID-19 cases relative to the base capacity of hospital beds. The country-level base capacity is represented by three types of hospital beds: “all hospital beds”, “only curative hospital beds” and “only critical care beds”. The data is normalized to the situation in Italy on 11 March, 2020. As such, a score of 1 for a specific country and measure today, represents a pressure similar to Italy on 11 March on the base capacity of this country. Click on items in legend to toggle display of categories and/or hover over the bars to display the numbers.
Note that for the following countries, active cases are no longer updated on the worldometers.info website, hence these countries are not depicted in the figure: Iceland, Turkey.
Descriptive statistics
The number of hospital beds per 100 000 population. Click on items in legend to toggle display of categories and/or hover over the bars to display the numbers.