{"id":9570,"date":"2021-05-03T14:20:16","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T21:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9570"},"modified":"2021-05-06T14:20:52","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T21:20:52","slug":"quality-adjusted-life-year-losses-averted-with-every-covid-19-infection-prevented-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/05\/03\/quality-adjusted-life-year-losses-averted-with-every-covid-19-infection-prevented-in-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Quality-Adjusted Life-Year Losses Averted With Every COVID-19 Infection Prevented in the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Averting one SARS-CoV-2 infection among a representative US resident would generate an additional <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">0.061 quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs) (0.055 for the patient; 0.006 for the patient\u2019s family members) according to a probabilistic simulation model informed by CDC COVID-19 estimates.\u00a0 Preventing one infection would result in a total of 1.51 total QALYs gained over a long<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">er time<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> horizon of 15 months if the ongoing transmission from the index patient is included, though the analysis assumes that an effective vaccine is not available until <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">three months into the simulation<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Basu and Gandhay. (May 2021). Quality-Adjusted Life-Year Losses Averted With Every COVID-19 Infection Prevented in the United States. Value in Health. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jval.2020.11.013\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jval.2020.11.013<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Averting one SARS-CoV-2 infection among a representative US resident would generate an additional 0.061 quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs) (0.055 for the patient; 0.006 for the patient\u2019s family members) according to a probabilistic simulation model informed by CDC COVID-19 estimates.\u00a0 Preventing one infection would result in a total of 1.51 total QALYs gained over a longer time&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/05\/03\/quality-adjusted-life-year-losses-averted-with-every-covid-19-infection-prevented-in-the-united-states\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[39],"topic":[23],"class_list":["post-9570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-modeling","topic-modeling-and-prediction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9571,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9570\/revisions\/9571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9570"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}