Table 3.

Costs of sending HCW into quarantine (per 1000 exposed HCW).

(a) Costs at the expense of the employer (hospital)
Costs due to continuation of wage for all symptomatically diseased HCW, starting from the respective day of symptoms until the end of quarantine: *
7.065 infected HCW on day 2 × EUR 167.58 × 12 remaining days	EUR 14,207.43
30.4 infected HCW on day 4 × EUR 167.58 × 10 remaining days	EUR 50,944.32
24.02 infected HCW on day 6 × EUR 167.58 × 8 remaining days	EUR 32,202.17
7.504 infected HCW on day 8 × EUR 167.58 × 6 remaining days	EUR 7545.12
6.845 infected HCW on day 10 × EUR 167.58 × 4 remaining days	EUR 4588.34
2.856 infected HCW on day 12 × EUR 167.58 × 2 remaining days	EUR 957.22
0.956 infected HCW on day 14 × EUR 167.58	EUR 196.07
Total cost for 1000 HCW sent into quarantine: EUR 110,640.67 (±20%: EUR 88,512.54 to EUR 132,768.80)
Cost per exposed HCW sent into quarantine from the hospital´s perspective: EUR 110.64 (±20%: EUR 88.51 to EUR 132.77)
(b) Costs at the expense of the taxpayer
Reimbursement of wages to the employer (hospital) for all HCW sent into quarantine as long as no symptoms appear: 1000 HCW × EUR 167.58 × 14 days (EUR 2346,120; ±20%: 1876,896 to EUR 2815,344) minus EUR 110,604.67 (±20%: EUR 88,512.54 to EUR 132,768.80; see Table 3a)
Total cost for 1000 HCW sent into quarantine: EUR 2235,479.33 (±20%: EUR 1744,127.20 to EUR 2726,831.46)
Cost per exposed HCW sent into quarantine from the taxpayer´s perspective: EUR 2235.48 (±20%: EUR 1744.13 to EUR 2726.83)

* The number of all HCW becoming symptomatically infected on the respective days 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 and 14 according to the point estimates of Table 2 are multiplied by the average wage costs per day and the number of days remaining to the end of the 14-day quarantine period.