COVID-19 vaccines saved 20 mn lives in first year - Study

Saturday, June 25, 2022 - 01:00

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COVID-19 vaccines prevented nearly 20 million deaths in the first year after they were introduced, according to the first large modelling study on the topic released Friday.

根据周五发布的关于新冠疫苗的首次大型模型研究，新冠疫苗在推出后的第一年里防止了近2000万人死亡。

The study, published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, is based on data from 185 countries and territories collected from December 8, 2020 to December 8, 2021. It is the first attempt to estimate the number of deaths prevented directly and indirectly as a result of COVID-19 vaccinations. It found that 19.8 million deaths were prevented out of a potential 31.4 million deaths that would have occurred if no vaccines were available. It was a 63 percent reduction, the study found. The study found that high- and middle-income countries accounted for the largest number of deaths averted, 12.2 million out of 19.8 million, reflecting inequalities in access to vaccines worldwide.

这项发表在《柳叶刀传染病》杂志上的研究基于185个国家和地区从2020年12月8日到2021年12月8日收集的数据。 这是首次试图估计因接种新冠疫苗直接和间接避免死亡的人数。 研究发现，如果没有疫苗，可能会有3140万人死亡，而实际1980万人的死亡得以避免，减少了63%。 研究发现，高收入和中等收入国家避免的死亡人数最多，在1980万例死亡中占1220万例，这反映了全世界在获得疫苗方面的不平等。

Nearly 600,000 additional deaths could have been prevented if the World Health Organisation's (WHO) goal of vaccinating 40 percent of each country's population by the end of 2021 had been met, it concluded. COVID has officially killed more than 6.3 million people globally, according to the WHO.

报告总结称，如果世界卫生组织在2021年底前实现各国40%人口接种疫苗的目标，本可以避免近60万例额外死亡。 根据世界卫生组织的数据，COVID已正式导致全球超过630万人死亡。

But the organisation said last month the real number could be as high as 15 million, when all direct and indirect causes are accounted for.

但该组织上个月表示，如果把所有直接和间接原因都考虑在内，真实数字可能高达1500万。 

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