US research: Nearly 240,000 deaths from COVID-19 could have been prevented with vaccines

Some 240,000 deaths from complications of COVID-19 from June 2021 onwards could have been avoided if vaccinations had been given “on time”, according to a Forbes magazine article citing research by the Kaiser Family Foundation.

This research reveals that 60% of all adult deaths due to complications of the disease caused by the new coronavirus would have been prevented if the victims had simply received a full initial vaccination regimen (two doses of either Moderna or Pfizer / BioNTech vaccines, or a dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine).

The research was based on data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the main US federal public health service.

Its authors estimate that from June 2021 to March 2022, 270,000 unvaccinated adults died. It accounts for approximately 70% of all deaths due to complications of COVID-19 during this period, according to the research.

Nearly 1 million lives (over 990,000) have been lost in the United States due to the new coronavirus pandemic, at least according to data collected by Johns Hopkins University.

The disease was the third leading cause of death in the US in 2021, behind heart disease and cancer, for the second year in a row, according to a separate report from the CDC, which was also released yesterday.

According to the service, mortality in all age ranges increased in 2021 by almost 1% compared to 2020.

Source: Capital

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