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COVID-19 vax saved 3.25 million American lives and $1.5 trillion in medical bills.

   December 14, 2022

According to a new modeling study by the Commonwealth Fund, without COVID-19 vaccines, the US would have seen four times more deaths from the pandemic virus—an additional 3 million lives lost—as well as nearly four times more hospitalizations, 1.5 times more infections, and an additional $1.5 trillion in medical bills since December of 2020.

The researchers from the University of Maryland, York University, and Yale University determined COVID-19 vaccination prevented 3.25 million deaths, with a 95-percent confidence interval of 3.1 million to 3.4 million.

Averted hospitalizations were estimated at 18.6 million, with a confidence interval of 17.8 million to 19.35 million. For infections, the model estimated a dodge of 119.85 million, with a confidence interval of 112.7 million to 127.1 million.

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