COVID-19 hospitalization and mortality and hospitalization-related utilization and expenditure: Analysis of a South African private health insured population

• Geetesh Solanki,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Health Systems Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa, Health Economics Unit, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8512-3119

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• Thomas Wilkinson,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Health Economics Unit, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, World Bank Group, Washington, DC, United States of America

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• Shailav Bansal,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation

  Affiliation Quantium Health South Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Joshila Shiba,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Quantium Health South Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Samuel Manda,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Statistics, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, Biostatistics Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Pretoria, South Africa

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• Tanya Doherty

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: tanya.doherty@mrc.ac.za

  Affiliations Health Systems Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1592-0080

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