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SUBMITTER: Robinson LA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9455599 | biostudies-literature | 2022
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Robinson Lisa A LA Eber Michael R MR Hammitt James K JK
Journal of benefit-cost analysis 20220803 2
Many economic analyses, including those that address the COVID-19 pandemic, focus on the value of averting deaths and do not include the value of averting nonfatal illnesses. Yet incorporating the value of averting nonfatal cases may change conclusions about the desirability of the policy. While per case values may be small, the number of nonfatal cases is often large, far outstripping the number of fatal cases. The value of averting nonfatal cases is also increasingly important in evaluating CO ...[more]