US study: one million fewer deaths with vaccines
Over 240,000 fewer deaths and one million potential deaths prevented thanks to the vaccination campaign for Covid in the United States. To calculate the estimates of the effectiveness of vaccines in the US is a study conducted by York University in Toronto, together with Yale University, published on Jama Network. The Covid-19 pandemic has caused more than 745,000 deaths in the United States. However, the price would have been higher without the rapid development and spread of vaccines. As of October 2021, 69% of 258 million US adults were fully vaccinated. Many randomized clinical trials have already established the individual efficacy of licensed vaccines against the parent strain, which exceeds 90% in preventing symptomatic and severe diseases. By contrast, the population-wide effectiveness of the US vaccination campaign in terms of association with reduced infections, hospitalizations and deaths is not as well documented, and US researchers evaluated it using a simulation model.
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France: “Real infections between 500 thousand and one million”
In France, the “real infections” could be between 500,000 and one million. This was stated by the Minister of Health, Olivier Veran, in an interview this morning with FranceInfo. “When the Omicron variant records 370,000 infections per day, it can be assumed that in reality we are not that far from a million cases, perhaps a little less because we do a lot of tests, but there are probably more than 500,000 cases”. According to the minister, “it is now certain that traditional measures have no impact on such a contagious variant”. “We will not let Omicron circulate,” he concluded.
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