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Fri, 2022-04-22 10:23 — mike kraft
Quarter of US COVID-19 deaths could have been prevented by vaccination: analysis A new analysis finds that approximately 234,000 U.S. deaths from COVID-19 since June 2021 could have been prevented if people had been vaccinated.   The analysis from the Peterson Center on He… The Hill The Hill

A new analysis finds that approximately 234,000 U.S. deaths from COVID-19 since June 2021 could have been prevented if people had been vaccinated.  

The analysis from the Peterson Center on Healthcare and the Kaiser Family Foundation underscores the importance of vaccination, and indicates a significant portion of the heavy toll from the virus could have been prevented.  

The 234,000 preventable deaths translates to about one quarter of the nearly one million U.S. deaths from the virus since the pandemic began, and 60 percent of the deaths since June 2021, when vaccines became widely available.  

“Since vaccines became widely available last summer, a total of 389,000 adults in the United States have died of COVID-19, and 6 in 10 of those deaths – about 234,000 deaths – could have been prevented by timely vaccinations,” the analysis states. “This analysis underscores the importance of continued efforts to increase the number of people vaccinated and boosted against COVID-19.”  ...

 

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Mon, 2022-04-25 10:20 — mike kraft

The Covid risk on planes, public transit amid lifted mandates, according to experts Wearing a mask reduces your risk of catching Covid from fellow passengers on subways, buses and planes, regardless of what other people do. NBC News

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One-way masking is actually a very effective way of preventing acquisition of SARS-CoV-2," said Joseph Lewnard, an assistant professor of epidemiology at the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health. ...

Scott Weisenberg, an infectious disease specialist at New York University Langone Health, said although travelers' risk of getting Covid is higher without the mandate, "you’re always going to be less likely to acquire Covid with a mask on."

He added that "people should wear the best quality masks that they can get, and N95 would certainly be the most reliable." ...

 

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