A report from the Canadian Institute for Health Information has stated that the COVID-19 pandemic has cost Canada’s health care system a billion dollars in a period from January 2020 to March 2021, and that’s with the report discounting physician’s costs or costs related to Quebec health care.
The report also noted the difference in cost between a COVID patient and someone who is in intensive care, as COVID patient care can cost up to 50-thousand dollars — compared with a heart attack patient costing 9-thousand dollars and someone with pneumonia costing eight thousand.
The main reason for the big discrepancy in price, according to the report, is that COVID patients usually spend a lot longer in the hospital that most other patients.
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