WHO COVID-19 Essential Supplies Forecasting Tool (COVID-ESFT) v4.1

Overview

The WHO COVID-19 Essential Supplies Forecasting Tool (ESFT) assists governments, partners, and other stakeholders to forecast the necessary volume of personal protective equipment, diagnostic equipment, consumable medical supplies, biomedical equipment for case management, and essential drugs for supportive care and treatment of COVID-19. The tool provides the user with a choice among several epidemiological methods for forecasting COVID-19 cases, including an integration with Imperial College’s Susceptible-Exposed-Infectious-Removed (SEIR) model. 

This version supersedes version 4 published in April of 2021. Updates include: stock input option to account for current inventory, updated pricing, updated therapeutics/pharmaceuticals, and formatting modifications.