Eighty percent of the United States population becoming infected with COVID-19 may result in approximately $654 billion in direct costs over the course of the pandemic, according to a Monte Carlo simulation model published in Health Affairs.
The same percentage of infected patients could result in a median of 44.6 million hospitalizations, 10.7 million ICU admissions, 6.5 million ventilators used and 249.5 million hospital bed days.
In other scenarios, the model showed that:
The model also showed that COVID-19 costs start to drop in patients aged older than 65 years.and (Read more...)
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