Figure 4

Breakdown of pandemic cost components. Breakdown of pandemic costs shown as horizontal bar, for each intervention strategy and each severity category. Coloured segments of each bar represent cost components as follows: (blue) health care; (red) antiviral drugs, including dispensing costs; (green) productivity losses due to illness and social distancing interventions; (purple) productivity losses due to deaths. Note that horizontal scale is different for each severity category. Values are for a pandemic with unmitigated transmissibility of R₀ = 1.8. Interventions abbreviated as: SC – school closure; CCR – 50% community contact reduction; WR – 50% workforce reduction; 4, 8 – intervention duration in weeks; cont – continuous duration; AV – antiviral treatment of diagnosed symptomatic cases and antiviral prophylaxis of household members of diagnosed symptomatic cases.