01857cas a2200265 a 4500 AALejournalIMF021078 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781513550220 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Dudine, Paolo. A Framework for Estimating Health Spending in Response to COVID-19 / Paolo Dudine, Klaus-Peter Hellwig, Samir Jahan. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2020. 1 online resource (43 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students We estimate the additional health spending necessary to treat COVID-19 patients. We expand a Susceptible Infected Recovered model to project the number of people requiring hospitalization, use information about healthcare costs by country, and make assumptions about capacity constraints in the health sector. Without social distancing and lockdowns, countries would need to expand health systems ten-fold, on average, to assist all COVID-19 patients in need of hospitalization. Under capacity constraints, effective social distancing and quarantine reduce the additional health spending from a range of USD 0.6-1 trillion globally to USD 130-231 billion, and the fatality rate from 1.2 to 0.2 percent, on average. Mode of access: Internet Hellwig, Klaus-Peter. Jahan, Samir. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2020/145 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2020/145/001.2020.issue-145-en.xml IMF e-Library