Assessing the impacts of COVID-19 vaccination programme’s timing and speed on health benefits, cost-effectiveness, and relative affordability in 27 African countries

Table 3 Health service costs

Health service endpoints	Lower limit ($)	First quartile ($)	Median ($)	Third quartile ($)	Upper limit ($)
Home-based care	4.84	17.22	22.11	44.52	266.24
Hospital-based care for severe cases	27.02	33.65	37.08	45.74	170.99
Hospital-based care for critical cases	156.63	245.10	277.57	336.06	1685.98
Management of fatal cases	65.29	65.29	65.29	65.29	65.29

Summary of the vaccine unit costs by country (n = 27) estimated for vaccine roll-out efforts starting 01 August 2021 using medium and fast roll-out rates by vaccine types. The underlying methods have been described in Additional File 1: Methods S7-9. Further sample estimates by country are presented in Additional File 1: Table S9

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