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Topic: Preventable covid hospital costs

Posted By: Pixie
Subject: Preventable covid hospital costs
Date Posted: September 14 2021 at 12:08pm

https://twitter.com/kff/status/1437761810048946178?s=12 -

Based on our estimates, described below, we find preventable COVID-19 hospitalizations cost $5.7 billion from June to August in 2021.

We used counts of adult hospitalizations with confirmed COVID-19 in recent months reported to HHS to estimate preventable hospitalization costs for unvaccinated adults. We focus on hospitalizations of adults (ages 18+) with COVID-19 because many children are still ineligible for the COVID-19 vaccine, and even those minors who are eligible may need parental consent to get the vaccine. We made assumptions that result in a conservative estimate of costs attributable to preventable, unvaccinated hospitalizations.

Over 280,000 COVID-19 hospitalizations could have been prevented by vaccination between June to August 2021

Preventable COVID-related hospitalization costs for unvaccinated people in the U.S., June-August 2021

	June 2021	July 2021	August 2021	Total
New hospital admissions of adult patients with confirmed COVID-19	60,000	125,000	345,000	530,000
Estimated share of adults hospitalized with COVID-19 who were unvaccinated	86.0%	86.0%	86.0%	86.0%
Estimated number of unvaccinated adults hospitalized for COVID-19	51,000	108,000	297,000	456,000
Estimated share of hospitalizations primarily for COVID-19	75%	75%	75%	75%
Estimated number of unvaccinated adults hospitalized primarily for COVID-19	39,000	81,000	222,000	342,000
Estimated share of unvaccinated hospitalizations for COVID-19 that were preventable	84%	84%	84%	84%
Estimated number of preventable COVID-19 hospitalizations	32,000	68,000	187,000	287,000
Approximate cost per COVID-related hospital admission	$20,000	$20,000	$20,000	$20,000
Estimated preventable cost for unvaccinated COVID-related adult hospitalizations	$0.6 Billion	$1.4 Billion	$3.7 Billion	$5.7 Billion

Note: Numbers may not sum due to rounding.

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