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Study: Corona vaccination saved 20 million lives in the first year

2022-06-25T04:55:00.635Z


Study: Corona vaccination saved 20 million lives in the first year Created: 06/25/2022, 06:51 By: Bettina Menzel An intensive care nurse takes care of a patient who is seriously ill with corona in the intensive care unit. A study shows that the vaccination has so far saved the lives of around 20 million people worldwide (symbol image). © picture alliance/dpa | Boris Roessler The coronavirus va


Study: Corona vaccination saved 20 million lives in the first year

Created: 06/25/2022, 06:51

By: Bettina Menzel

An intensive care nurse takes care of a patient who is seriously ill with corona in the intensive care unit.

A study shows that the vaccination has so far saved the lives of around 20 million people worldwide (symbol image).

© picture alliance/dpa |

Boris Roessler

The coronavirus vaccine has already saved 20 million lives.

But if the vaccination rate targeted by the WHO had been achieved, it would have prevented many more deaths.

London – Vaccination against the corona virus significantly reduces the risk of long covid and the risk of a severe course.

According to a study, 20 million lives could be saved within a year with the corona vaccination.

But the conclusion of the researchers from Imperial College in London also shows that many people died in vain.

Because if the vaccination rate of 40 percent had been reached worldwide by the end of 2021, this would have prevented even more corona deaths.

Corona vaccination saves 20 million lives: This is how the researchers proceeded in the study

The research team led by Oliver J. Watson and Gregory Barnsley from Imperial College London used the officially reported Covid 19 deaths in 185 countries and territories as the data basis, as well as the statistics on excess mortality.

They used this to model.

Watson and his team first compared death rates to a fictional alternative scenario in which vaccinations do not exist.

Between December 8, 2020 and December 8, 2021, the vaccination saved 14.4 million lives that would otherwise have died from Corona.

The estimate increases to almost 20 million if, instead of the official death rate, the excess mortality in the various countries is used as the true extent of the pandemic.

The corona vaccination was able to reduce deaths by 63 percent worldwide.

The research team specifies a confidence interval of 95 percent for this.

This means, statistically, that the true value of lives saved by vaccination is 95 percent within the interval of 19.1 to 20.4 million.

The study was published June 23 in the medical journal

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

.

Corona virus: millions of deaths could have been prevented by higher vaccination rates

The Imperial College London researchers' research also found that people in high- and middle-income countries were more likely to be rescued.

Only 0.3 in 10,000 people were saved in poorer countries - in high-income countries it was 52 saved per 10,000 people.

The reason for this is the unequal distribution of vaccines.

"The inequality in the availability of vaccines is the greatest moral failure of our time," said UN Secretary-General António Guterres in February.

"People and states are paying the price," the UN Secretary-General continued.

This is also confirmed by the study by Watson and his colleagues.

If by the end of 2021 at least the vaccination rate of 40 percent targeted by the World Health Organization (WHO) had been achieved in all countries of the world, 600,000 lives would have been saved.

"Millions of lives have probably been saved by making vaccines available to people around the world," study leader Oliver Watson commented on the results, but cautioned: "We could have done more."

According to the Johns Hopkins Institute, a total of 6.3 million people have died since the pandemic began.

However, experts assume a high number of unreported cases, a study on this comes to over 18 million corona fatalities.

The current vaccination target of the World Health Organization is 70 percent of the world population.

This will also be one of the topics at the upcoming G7 summit in Elmau.

According to their own statements, the G7 countries therefore want to further accelerate their efforts to achieve a “fair and rapid global distribution” of safe and effective corona vaccines

(AFP/bme).

Source: merkur

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