Not sure if a similar one has been done for SCD. But it’s not hard to imagine that eradication of a disease in a population is much more cost-effective (especially in the long, long term) than continuing to create billions more people with SCD and treating them with increasingly expensive therapies eg gene therapies (despite what pharmaceutical companies would have you believe).
Here is an analysis of Huntington’s Disease.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35618525/
Not sure if a similar one has been done for SCD. But it’s not hard to imagine that eradication of a disease in a population is much more cost-effective (especially in the long, long term) than continuing to create billions more people with SCD and treating them with increasingly expensive therapies eg gene therapies (despite what pharmaceutical companies would have you believe).