Column: The key policy we need to end the COVID-19 pandemic is being ignored
is an alternative that lowers risk by 30 percent. Both are taken at home as a 3-5 day course of pills. Equitable and timely access to these treatments is the delivery highway to get to our new normal while cutting down on hospitalizations and deaths even as some community transmission inevitably continues.
The CDC recommends that people who test positive stay home so that they do not spread the virus. Facility-based T3 requires infectious people to leave home while sick, often using public transport, and to enter crowded health facilities. A dangerous formula that could be avoided with at-home testing.
The components of a necessary one-stop, verified and safe at-home T3 program already exist. “T3-enabled” QR coded rapid test boxes could be used anywhere to take a virtually-supervised telehealth test. If positive and meeting medical indications, the patient could be immediately evaluated for and prescribed treatment. The medication would be delivered from the nearest supplier pharmacy. All from the convenience of the home and with a high level of quality, safety, security, and timeliness.
The tangible cost offsets relate to savings from medical visits, hospitalizations and deaths avoided. Theto Medicare for a COVID-19 hospitalization is approximately $21,000, and $42,000 for a private payer. The projected cost savings from avoided hospitalizations alone is about 15 billion dollars. Additional economies will be captured through reducing outpatient clinic visits, limiting transmission, and avoiding more costly on-site testing.
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