ecdc-surveillance.covid.hospital_icu
Get historical daily hospital/ICU occupancy and weekly new admission rates per 100k for COVID-19 by country from ECDC surveillance data. Filter by country name, optionally by one of four indicators (daily hospital occupancy, daily ICU occupancy, weekly hospital admissions per 100k, weekly ICU adm...
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What ecdc-surveillance.covid.hospital_icu does on Apibase
AI agents call ecdc-surveillance.covid.hospital_icu to retrieve information from Apibase without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
limit | integer | — | Maximum number of records to return (default 100, max 500). |
country | string | Yes | Country name to filter by (e.g. "Germany"). Required — the upstream dataset has no server-side query, so this narrows the full historical dump. |
indicator | string | — | Filter to a single indicator series. Omit to return all four indicators. |
Parameters from the server's own tool schema.
Why ecdc-surveillance.covid.hospital_icu is rated Low
Tool retrieves historical public health surveillance data with no write, delete, execute, or financial operations.
From the tool's definition Get historical daily hospital/ICU occupancy and weekly new admission rates per 100k for COVID-19
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The rule that runs ecdc-surveillance.covid.hospital_icu safely
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Apibase, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For ecdc-surveillance.covid.hospital_icu, this is the rule to start with:
ecdc-surveillance.covid.hospital_icu is read-only, so it stays allowed. Everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
The button opens the PolicyLayer dashboard: create your workspace, connect Apibase, apply this rule, and every ecdc-surveillance.covid.hospital_icu call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about ecdc-surveillance.covid.hospital_icu
Get historical daily hospital/ICU occupancy and weekly new admission rates per 100k for COVID-19 by country from ECDC surveillance data. Filter by country name, optionally by one of four indicators (daily hospital occupancy, daily ICU occupancy, weekly hospital admissions per 100k, weekly ICU admissions per 100k). Covers 2020-W01 through 2023-W47 only — ECDC discontinued routine COVID-19 reporting in December 2023, so this reflects the final frozen historical dataset, not live surveillance. Data: ECDC opendata, CC BY 4.0, no auth required. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Apibase MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
ecdc-surveillance.covid.hospital_icu accepts 3 parameters: limit, country, indicator. Required: country. The full parameter table on this page comes from the server's own tool schema.
Register the Apibase MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for ecdc-surveillance.covid.hospital_icu: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches Apibase. Nothing to install.
ecdc-surveillance.covid.hospital_icu is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the ecdc-surveillance.covid.hospital_icu rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for ecdc-surveillance.covid.hospital_icu. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
ecdc-surveillance.covid.hospital_icu is provided by the Apibase MCP server (apibase-mcp-client). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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