COVID-19 Hospital and ICU Occupancy Rates by Country and Date

Data on hospitalization and Intensive Care Unit (ICU) admission rates and current occupancy for COVID-19, organized by date and country. The dataset is based on raw data from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), harmonized by researchers at the University of Pavia.

Use Cases

• Modeling healthcare capacity strain based on hospitalization and ICU occupancy rates.
• Analyzing temporal trends in COVID-19 severity by country based on admission rates.
• Comparing international pandemic responses based on hospital and ICU occupancy data.

Strengths

• Data originates from the authoritative European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).
• Includes harmonized and homogenized data from a university laboratory.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count, file formats, and license information are unknown.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), harmonized by University of Pavia.

Collection Method

Originally downloaded from ECDC, with harmonization and homogenization applied.

Time Range

Likely covers the COVID-19 pandemic period, but specific range is unknown.

Freshness

Last updated date is unknown.

Geography

Country-level data, likely with a focus on European countries from the ECDC source.