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Unvaccinated COVID patients cost the U.S. health system billions of
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Published: Sep 14, 2021

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A surge in COVID-19 hospitalizations among people who have not been
vaccinated in August is adding billions of dollars in preventable
costs to the nation's health-care system, this updated KFF analysis
finds.

 

The analysis estimates that the preventable costs of treating
unvaccinated patients in the hospitals total $3.7 billion in August,
almost twice the estimates for June and July combined. The total
preventable costs for those three months now stand at an estimated
$5.7 billion.

The analysis is available on the Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker,
an online information hub dedicated to monitoring and assessing the
performance of the U.S. health system.

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