Mary Wilson
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Date posted: October 20, 2021
Authors: Richard Bruns; Divya Hosangadi; Marc Trotochaud; and Tara Kirk Sell
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that false or misleading health-related information can dangerously undermine the response to a public health crisis.
... We calculate that total voluntary COVID-19 nonvaccination has caused at least $1 billion of harm each day in the United States since vaccines became widely available. This estimate is based on the costs of hospitalizations and the valuation of lives lost and long-term morbidity due to COVID-19 calculated using the standard methodology for US Department of Health and Human Services regulatory impact analysis.[SUP]5[/SUP] Our conservative estimate, which does not take into account lower transmission in the future,[SUP]6[/SUP] reflects relatively low levels of disease transmission during June and July 2021. Harms from nonvaccination and associated costs of misinformation were much higher during the Delta surge. Even after the surge in US cases caused by the Delta variant subsides, this level of harm (estimated at 300 deaths, 1,200 hospitalizations, and 20,000 cases per day or more) will continue for at least several months. While most of this measured harm is the monetized value of mortality and morbidity, about $60 million of the $1 billion per day total is monetary or financial harm (costs to the healthcare system and economic losses from individuals missing work). These estimates and sources are described in our worksheet.[SUP]7 ...
https://www.centerforhealthsecurity...-costs-an-estimated-50-to-300-million-each-da[/SUP]
Authors: Richard Bruns; Divya Hosangadi; Marc Trotochaud; and Tara Kirk Sell
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that false or misleading health-related information can dangerously undermine the response to a public health crisis.
... We calculate that total voluntary COVID-19 nonvaccination has caused at least $1 billion of harm each day in the United States since vaccines became widely available. This estimate is based on the costs of hospitalizations and the valuation of lives lost and long-term morbidity due to COVID-19 calculated using the standard methodology for US Department of Health and Human Services regulatory impact analysis.[SUP]5[/SUP] Our conservative estimate, which does not take into account lower transmission in the future,[SUP]6[/SUP] reflects relatively low levels of disease transmission during June and July 2021. Harms from nonvaccination and associated costs of misinformation were much higher during the Delta surge. Even after the surge in US cases caused by the Delta variant subsides, this level of harm (estimated at 300 deaths, 1,200 hospitalizations, and 20,000 cases per day or more) will continue for at least several months. While most of this measured harm is the monetized value of mortality and morbidity, about $60 million of the $1 billion per day total is monetary or financial harm (costs to the healthcare system and economic losses from individuals missing work). These estimates and sources are described in our worksheet.[SUP]7 ...
https://www.centerforhealthsecurity...-costs-an-estimated-50-to-300-million-each-da[/SUP]