“Universal healthcare coverage in the U.S. would have saved hundreds of thousands of lives as well as hundreds of billions of dollars through the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new analysis.
“Researchers from the Yale School of Public Health and other institutions estimated that in 2020 alone, more than 131,000 COVID deaths and almost 78,000 excess non-COVID deaths would have been averted with broader nationwide coverage and saved the U.S. over $459 billion in 2020.”
Full study: https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2200536119
