Direct and indirect effects of the covid-19 pandemic and response in South Asia

Variable name	Description	No intervention	Hand hygiene	Face masks	Smart lockdowns
Comments
hosp.cap	Number of available hospital beds for the modelled population	Extracted from the table downloaded from https:// github.com/owid/covid-19-data/tree/master/public/ data. Scaled by the same factor as s.num.
fat.rate.overcap	Daily mortality rate for people needing hospitalisation but cannot get into hospital due to the hospitals being full	fat.rate.base times 2.
fat.tcoeff	Time coefficient for increasing mortality rate for people requiring hospitalization who cannot get a hospital bad	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	This assumes that the fatality rate doubles once the number of hospitalizations required exceeds the hospitalization capacity