Vaccines prevented more than 1 million Covid-19 deaths in the US, study estimates

Vaccines prevented more than 1 million Covid-19 deaths in the US, study estimates Vaccines prevented more than 1 million Covid-19 deaths and more than 10 million hospitalizations in the United States, a study published Tuesday by The Commonwealth Fund estimates. By Ed Upright, <a href="/profiles/aditi-sandal">Aditi Sangal</a>, <a href="/profiles/adrienne-vogt">Adrienne Vogt</a> and <a href="/profiles/meg-wagner">Meg Wagner</a>, CNN CNN

Vaccines prevented more than 1 million Covid-19 deaths and more than 10 million hospitalizations in the United States, a study published Tuesday by The Commonwealth Fund estimates.

The model also predicts that there would have been nearly 36 million additional infections through November 2021 in the absence of vaccines.

Most of the deaths and hospitalizations that vaccines helped to avoid would have occurred in the late summer and early fall as the Delta variant began to spread widely across the country and surge in southern states, according to the study. During that time, average daily deaths could have spiked as high as 21,000 per day. That’s about six times the January 2021 peak of about 3,400 deaths per day, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.   ...