Cover: Association Between COVID-19 Relief Funds and Hospital Characteristics in the US

Association Between COVID-19 Relief Funds and Hospital Characteristics in the US

Published in: JAMA Health Forum, Volume 2, No. 10 (2021). doi: 10.1001/jamahealthforum.2021.3325

Posted on RAND.org on November 02, 2021

by Jonathan H. Cantor, Nabeel Qureshi, Brian Briscombe, Justin Chapman, Christopher M. Whaley

CARES Act funds may have disproportionately gone to hospitals that were in a stronger financial situation prior to the pandemic compared to those that were not, but funds also went disproportionately to those that eventually had the most cases.

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