Global Health News Wire: Modeling study estimates health-care cost of covid-19 in low- and middle-income countries at US$52 billion every four weeks
“New modeling research, published in The Lancet Global Health journal, estimates that it could cost low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) around US$52 billion (equivalent to US$8.60 per person) over four weeks to provide an effective health care response to COVID-19, assuming each country’s reproductive number (average number of contacts that a case infects) remained unchanged…” (9/9).