The Economic and Public Health Imperatives Around Making Potential Coronavirus Disease-2019 Treatments Available and Affordable

Affiliations

¹ Avenir Health, Glastonbury, CT, USA. Electronic address: sforsythe@avenirhealth.org.
² Joshua P. Cohen Healthcare Analytics, Boston, MA, USA.
³ Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.
⁴ University of California Berkeley School of Public Health, Berkeley, CA, USA; Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, Cuernavaca, México; University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
⁵ Perinatal HIV Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, Soweto, South Africa.

Editorial

Steven Forsythe et al. Value Health. 2020 Nov.

. 2020 Nov;23(11):1427-1431.

doi: 10.1016/j.jval.2020.04.1824. Epub 2020 May 21.

¹ Avenir Health, Glastonbury, CT, USA. Electronic address: sforsythe@avenirhealth.org.
² Joshua P. Cohen Healthcare Analytics, Boston, MA, USA.
³ Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.
⁴ University of California Berkeley School of Public Health, Berkeley, CA, USA; Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, Cuernavaca, México; University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
⁵ Perinatal HIV Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, Soweto, South Africa.

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