Lingering effects of coronavirus could cost the US $50 billion in health care for COVID-19 patients long discharged from hospitals, a new study estimates.
And that’s if only 20 percent of the population gets infected.
If there isn’t a vaccine in the near future, and a hypothetical 80 percent of Americans get infected, the costs of their complications could rise to $204 billion, scientists at the City University of New York (CUNY).