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Public health decision making during the COVID-19 pandemic involves tradeoffs, uncertainty, and values, and models have been developed to inform administrative and policy decision makers to forecast demand for hospital resources, to understand hospital capacity constraints, and to determine when peak demand occurs. This editorial discusses fundamental differences among 3 models in current use.
在 COVID-19 大流行期间,公共卫生决策涉及权衡、不确定性和价值观,已经开发了模型来为行政和政策决策者提供信息,以预测医院资源的需求,了解医院能力的限制,并确定需求高峰何时出现。本社论讨论了当前使用的 3 种模型之间的根本区别。