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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Jan 8.
Published in final edited form as: AIDS. 2022 Jul 15;36(12):1697–1705. doi: 10.1097/QAD.0000000000003315

Fig. 2. Observed and predicted weekly number of persons who obtained a new antiretroviral prescription for HIV treatment in the United States, January 2017–March 2021.

Fig. 2.

Circles and dotted line: Circles represent observed weekly number of persons, and the dotted line connects consecutive weeks. Blue solid line and band: Predicted number of persons and 95% confidence interval assuming the absence of the COVID-19 pandemic. Federal holidays with large decreases in antiretroviral prescriptions include New Year’s day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day. These holidays were included as dummy variables in the model. We did not include other federal holidays as dummy variables in the model because large decreases in antiretroviral prescriptions were not observed. ARV, active antiretroviral; COVID-19, coronavirus disease 2019.