The impact of quality-adjusted life years on evaluating COVID-19 mitigation strategies: lessons from age-specific vaccination roll-out and variants of concern in Belgium (2020-2022)

Table 2 QALY loss of SARS-CoV-2 infection-related health conditions, adopted from Sandmann et al. [22], and the corresponding health states in the transmission model as presented in Fig. 1

Input	Value	Health state	Reference
QALY loss per symptomatic case	0.008	\(I_{mild}\)	[22, 23]
QALY loss per non-fatal hospitalisation	0.0201	\(I_{hosp}\)	[22, 24]
QALY loss per non-fatal ICU	0.15	\(I_{ICU}\)	[22, 26]
QALY loss per fatal infection	Quality-adjusted life years lost	D	[25, 40]

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