COVID-19: On the Disparity in Outcomes Between Military and Civilian Populations

CONCLUSIONS: Our results confirm that the burden placed on military health centers will be substantially lower than that for equivalent-sized civilian populations. More practically, the tool we have developed to investigate this (https://q.predsci.com/covid19/) can be used by military health planners to estimate the resources needed in particular locations based on current estimates of the transmission profiles of COVID-19 within the surrounding civilian population in which the military installation is embedded. As this tool continues to be developed, it can be used to assess the likely impact of different intervention strategies, as well as vaccine policies; both for the current pandemic as well as future ones.PMID:34632512 | DOI:10.1093/milmed/usab404
Source: Military Medicine - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Source Type: research