The cost of providing hospital care for unvaccinated Americans has reached $5.7 billion in just three months, CBS News reported.
THURSDAY, Sept. 16, 2021 -- The cost of providing hospital care for unvaccinated Americans has reached $5.7 billion in just three months,Between June and August, about 287,000 people who were not vaccinated were hospitalized for COVID-19 in the United States, according to data from the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Peterson Center on Healthcare, which collaborated to track health care costs and quality.
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, compared to fully vaccinated people, those who are unvaccinated are 11 times more likely to die from COVID-19. The expense of health care for people with COVID-19 is"borne not only by patients but also by society more broadly, including taxpayer-funded public programs and private insurance premiums paid by workers, businesses and individual purchasers," according to the authors of the report.
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