COVID vaccines saved 1.6 million lives in Europe --WHO study

Study: COVID vaccines saved 1.6 million lives in Europe New estimates published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine show that at least 1.6 million European lives have been directly saved by COVID-19 vaccinations, with 60% of those lives saved when Omicron became the dominant strain of the virus—and those numbers may be an undercount.  CIDRAP

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As of March 2023, 2.2 million COVID-19–related deaths have been reported across Europe. 

The data come from The World Health Organization European Respiratory Surveillance Network, which analyzed vaccination efforts from December 2020 to March 2023, a period that encompasses both initial vaccine rollouts in the European region and booster doses. A total of 34 of 54 countries in the region were included in the study.

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