Saving lives during the COVID-19 pandemic: the benefits of the first Swiss lockdown

Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics

Table 13 Overflow deaths (infections until September 1)

Note: This table reports the number of overflow deaths due to the shortage of healthcare facilities predicted according to both a basic SIR model and our SIRDC model accounting for seasonality and endogenous behavioral responses. For each model, the table displays separately the number of overflow deaths which can be attributed to the lack of, respectively, hospital (but not ICU) and ICU beds