 The COVID-19 pandemic has caused an unprecedented strain on health systems around the world, leading to increased demand for healthcare services in both hospitals and intensive care units, ICUs. To better understand the potential impact of the pandemic on healthcare resources, it is important to estimate the length of stay, loss, of patients with COVID-19 in hospital and ICU. This paper reviews existing literature on loss of patients with COVID-19 in hospital and ICU settings, and develops a method to generate loss distributions based on summary statistics from multiple studies. The authors found that the median loss for patients with COVID-19 in hospital ranges from 4 to 53 days in China, and 4 to 21 days outside of China. Similarly, the median loss for patients in ICU ranges from 6 to 12 days in China, and 7 to 19 days outside of China. These summary distributions can be used to project future bed requirements and inform contingency plans. This article was authored by Eleanor M. Rees, Emily S. Nightingale, Yalda Jafari, and others. We are article.tv, links in the description below.