COST OF A VACCINE: ~$30 USD
COST OF A SYMPTOMATIC COVID-19 CASE: ~$3,500 USD
COST OF A SYMPTOMATIC COVID-19 CASE: ~$3,500 USD
Source for this estimate:healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.13…
To be clear, this is very uncertain, but even at the lower bound of costs for largely asymptomatic young people, vaccines are cheaper than infections in the US
To be clear, this is very uncertain, but even at the lower bound of costs for largely asymptomatic young people, vaccines are cheaper than infections in the US
If 50% of all infections are fully asymptomatic, and most infections are in young people, the median cost of a COVID-19 infection might be as low as $100-$200 USD, which is still many times the cost of a vaccine 🤷♂️
Worth noting that this is also just the DIRECT medical cost (i.e. medications, hospital etc), if you included the INDIRECT costs of infections (time off work, social upheaval etc) infections would be even more expensive
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