This AI tool helps hospitals predict COVID-19 bed and ventilator demand ZDNet

The NHS has started trials of a machine-learning system designed to help hospitals in England anticipate the demand on resources caused by COVID-19. The COVID-19 Capacity Planning and System (CPAS) is being piloted at four acute hospitals in England to demonstrate whether it can help the NHS predict the demand for equipment like ICU beds and ventilators. If successful, CPAS will be rolled out nationally. From cancelled conferences to disrupted supply chains, not a corner of the global economy is immune to the spread of COVID-19. NHS Digital told ZDNet the initiative marked the "first time any project of this scale and scope using machine learning has been rolled out in the NHS."