  This research paper proposes a COVID-19 monitoring and response system to
identify the surge in the volume of patients at hospitals and shortage of
critical equipment like ventilators in South-east Asian countries, to
understand the burden on health facilities. This can help authorities in these
regions with resource planning measures to redirect resources to the regions
identified by the model. Due to the lack of publicly available data on the
influx of patients in hospitals, or the shortage of equipment, ICU units or
hospital beds that regions in these countries might be facing, we leverage
Twitter data for gleaning this information. The approach has yielded accurate
results for states in India, and we are working on validating the model for the
remaining countries so that it can serve as a reliable tool for authorities to
monitor the burden on hospitals.
