How many lives have COVID-19 vaccines saved?
The first year of vaccination programs saved almost 20 million deaths worldwide, reveals a modelling study in the Lancet Infectious Diseases
COVID-19 vaccines saved nearly 20 million lives during their first year, but even more deaths could have been prevented if international vaccination targets had been reached, researchers say.
The UK team used data from 185 countries to estimate how many COVID-19 deaths the vaccines prevented.
They predicted it was:
However, an additional 600,000 deaths would have been prevented if the WHO target of 40% vaccination coverage by the end of 2021 had been met, said the researchers in Lancet Infectious Diseases last week.
