Under birth-cohort screening with standard treatment,
60.4 million persons received antibody testing, 1 070 840
new cases were identified, 552 000 patients were treated,
229 000 patients achieved an SVR, and the number of deaths
from HCV was reduced to 509 000 (a decrease of 82 000
deaths compared with risk-based screening). Birth-cohort
screening increased QALYs by 348 800, medical costs by $5.5 billion, and productivity losses by $6.9 billion.