More than 122,000 lives could have been saved if all states had the same vaccination rates as the most vaccinated.
Yet the data was particularly illuminating when the authors compared the ten US states with the highest vaccination rates with those that had the lowest vaccination rates.
According to the JAMA study, the per capita rate of COVID-19 deaths in the 10 states with the highest vaccination rates was 75 deaths out of every 100,000 people. By contrast, the 10 states with the lowest rates of vaccination had a per capita death rate of 146 out of 100,000 people. But on an international scale, the numbers looked bad, too. The 10 most vaccinated states had an excess all-cause mortality rate that was equal to or less than that of several other OECD countries . The phrase “all-cause mortality rate” refers to the total death rate, based on all causes of death, within a total population for a given period of time. That number is meaningful because many deaths that were, on paper, from other causes were indirectly caused by COVID-19.
“From June 27, 2021, to March 26, 2022, the US would have averted 122,304 deaths if COVID-19 mortality matched that of the 10 most-vaccinated states and 266,700 deaths if US excess all-cause mortality rate matched that of the 10 most-vaccinated states,” the authors conclude. “If the US matched the rates of other peer countries, averted deaths would have been substantially higher in most cases .”
This means that, if the 10 states which had the fewest number of vaccinated citizens had been inoculated at the rates of the 10 states with the highest percentage of vaccinated citizens, roughly 122,000 people who died of COVID-19 during the nine-month period covered by the study would have lived instead.
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