Vaccinations prevented nearly 20 million deaths from COVID-19 in 185 countries and territories in the first 12 months the shots were available, a mathematical modeling study calculates.
prevented 14.4 million deaths from COVID in the countries and territories between December 8, 2020, and December 8, 2021.
But in countries that failed to meet the COVAX target of fully vaccinating 20% of the population, researchers estimated an additional 156,900 died from COVID. The authors calculate that a further 599,300 lives could have been saved if the World Health Organization's target of vaccinating 40% in each country with two or more doses by the end of 2021 had been met., Chad R. Wells, PhD, and Alison P.
Meanwhile, in Burundi, rollout started 10 months after the U.S., wrote Wells and Galvani, who were not part of the study.Previous studies have looked at deaths averted by countries or other geographic areas. This is the first to calculate lives saved directly or indirectly on a global scale.
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