Scientists from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found the U.S. COVID-19 vaccination program slashed the coronavirus’s expected death rate by as much as 58%.
Their computer models estimate that vaccines prevented 235,000 COVID deaths in the United States between December 2020 and September 2021.
Vaccination also prevented 1.6 million hospitalizations and 27 million COVID infections.
The research is published in JAMA Network Open and was conducted by Molly Steele et al.
Up to now, no one has established exactly how many COVID illnesses and deaths have been prevented by the three vaccines available in the United States.
In the study, researchers developed a model that takes into account the estimated risk of infection, hospitalizations and death for specific age groups among the unvaccinated.
They then factored the protective effects of vaccination into their numbers.
The team found that vaccination prevented 30% of all expected COVID infections, 33% of all expected hospitalizations, and 34% of all expected deaths among adults between December 2020 and September 2021.
That includes preventing 154,000 deaths among people 65 or older, 66,000 deaths among people 50 to 64, and 14,000 deaths among those 18 to 49.
The team says COVID-19 vaccination potentially reduced the overall impact of COVID-19 by about one-third. This means that disease and death would have increased by 30% without vaccination.
Thus, if more people were vaccinated against COVID-19, there will be further reductions in the numbers of infections, hospitalizations and deaths.
What’s more, that protection grew month by month as the vaccination program rolled out and more people became inoculated against COVID.
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