Fig. 3
From: Adapting hospital capacity to meet changing demands during the COVID-19 pandemic
Bed availability for elective surgery considering hospital provision interventions and COVID-19 patients. CC critical care; G&A, general and acute. The relationship between the daily bed occupancy of hospitalised COVID-19 patients and beds available for hospitalised elective patients on an average day under different combinations of hospital provision interventions for a CC beds and b G&A beds. The deficit in capacity in a is driven by CC nurses, the capacity of which remains unchanged under all interventions except from the full supply-side package, hence field hospitals and deployment of students do not increase CC capacity above the baseline. Axis ranges cover the observed peak number of hospitalised COVID-19 patients (horizontal) and maximum average open bed numbers (vertical)