{"id":8688607,"date":"2022-12-13T10:54:49","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T18:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eastbaytimes.com\/?p=8688607&preview=true&preview_id=8688607"},"modified":"2022-12-13T11:40:34","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T19:40:34","slug":"covid-19-vaccines-have-saved-more-than-3-million-lives-in-us-study-says-but-the-fight-isnt-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eastbaytimes.com\/2022\/12\/13\/covid-19-vaccines-have-saved-more-than-3-million-lives-in-us-study-says-but-the-fight-isnt-over\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 vaccines have saved more than 3 million lives in US, study says, but the fight isn\u2019t over"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Jen Christensen | CNN<\/strong><\/p>\n

The COVID-19 vaccines have kept more than 18.5 million people in the US out of the hospital and saved more than 3.2 million lives, a new study<\/a> says \u2014 and that estimate is most likely a conservative one, the researchers say.<\/p>\n

The US is nearing the second anniversary of its first COVID-19 vaccinations, and although the coronavirus is still causing thousands of illnesses and deaths, the vaccines have made living with the virus more manageable.<\/p>\n

To determine exactly how much the shots have helped, researchers from the Commonwealth Fund and Yale School of Public Health created a computer model of disease transmission that incorporated demographic information, people\u2019s risk factors, the dynamics of infection and general information about vaccination.<\/p>\n

Their study, published Tuesday, found that without COVID-19 vaccines, the nation would have had 1.5 times more infections, 3.8 times more hospitalizations and 4.1 times more deaths than it did between December 2020 and November 2022.<\/p>\n