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Investing to Both Prevent and Prepare for COVID-XX.
- Source :
- EcoHealth; Mar2022, Vol. 19 Issue 1, p114-123, 10p
- Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- One cause of the high rate of COVID-19 cases in the USA is thought to be insufficient prior capital investment in national health programs to preemptively reduce the likelihood of an outbreak and in national capacity to reduce the severity of any outbreak that does occur. We analyze the choice of capital investments (e.g. testing capacity, stockpiles of PPE, and information sharing capacity) and find the economically efficient capital stock associated with mitigating pandemic risk should be dramatically expanded. Policymakers who fail to invest in public health forgo significant expected cost savings from being prepared. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- CAPITAL investments
COVID-19 pandemic
CAPITAL stock
HEALTH programs
CAPITAL cities
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 16129202
- Volume :
- 19
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- EcoHealth
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 156790193
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10393-022-01576-w