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COVID vaccines saved 20M lives in 1st year, scientists say - The Associated Press - en Español
Jun 24, 2022 35 secs
Nearly 20 million lives were saved by COVID-19 vaccines during their first year, but even more deaths could have been prevented if international targets for the shots had been reached, researchers reported Thursday.

The researchers used data from 185 countries to estimate that vaccines prevented 4.2 million COVID-19 deaths in India, 1.9 million in the United States, 1 million in Brazil, 631,000 in France and 507,000 in the United Kingdom.

The main finding — 19.8 million COVID-19 deaths were prevented — is based on estimates of how many more deaths than usual occurred during the time period.

Using only reported COVID-19 deaths, the same model yielded 14.4 million deaths averted by vaccines.

Another modeling group used a different approach to estimate that 16.3 million COVID-19 deaths were averted by vaccines.

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