A Framework for Estimating Health Spending in Response to COVID-19 /

We estimate the additional health spending necessary to treat COVID-19 patients. We expand a Susceptible Infected Recovered model to project the number of people requiring hospitalization, use information about healthcare costs by country, and make assumptions about capacity constraints in the healt...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dudine, Paolo
Other Authors: Hellwig, Klaus-Peter, Jahan, Samir
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2020.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2020/145
Online Access:Full text available on IMF