Analysis: 25% Of US COVID Deaths Were Preventable
April 21, 2022 Coronavirus, United StatesThe Washington Post reports:
Within weeks, it’s likely that the 1,000,000th American will die of covid-19. The millionth death on record, that is — it’s likely that the number of deaths is undercounted. At the outset of the pandemic, after all, medical professionals didn’t know what they were looking for, and Americans were unprepared for the effects of the coronavirus and the disease it causes.
New analysis from the Peterson Center on Healthcare and Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) quantifies the effects of vaccination. Since June 2021, the point at which every American adult had access to coronavirus vaccines, they estimate that just over 234,000 unvaccinated Americans died who could have lived had they been immunized against the virus.
Nearly 240,000 Covid-19 Deaths Could Have Been Prevented With Vaccines, Study Finds
The vaccine-preventable deaths comprise 60 percent of all adult Covid-19 deaths since June 2021, the Kaiser Family Foundation found.
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