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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Paireau, Juliette
• Andronico, Alessio
• Hozé, Nathanaël
• Layan, Maylis
• Crépey, Pascal
• Roumagnac, Alix
• Lavielle, Marc
• Boëlle, Pierre-Yves
• Cauchemez, Simon

Titel

An ensemble model based on early predictors to forecast COVID-19 health care demand in France

Ist Teil von

• Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS, 2022-05, Vol.119 (18), p.e2103302119-e2103302119

Ort / Verlag

United States: National Academy of Sciences

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Short-term forecasting of the COVID-19 pandemic is required to facilitate the planning of COVID-19 health care demand in hospitals. Here, we evaluate the performance of 12 individual models and 19 predictors to anticipate French COVID-19-related health care needs from September 7, 2020, to March 6, 2021. We then build an ensemble model by combining the individual forecasts and retrospectively test this model from March 7, 2021, to July 6, 2021. We find that the inclusion of early predictors (epidemiological, mobility, and meteorological predictors) can halve the rms error for 14-d–ahead forecasts, with epidemiological and mobility predictors contributing the most to the improvement. On average, the ensemble model is the best or second-best model, depending on the evaluation metric. Our approach facilitates the comparison and benchmarking of competing models through their integration in a coherent analytical framework, ensuring that avenues for future improvements can be identified.