There is new data on the impact of COVID vaccines and their effectiveness from the University of Caliornia San Francisco.
The authors realized the need for more data when it comes to the effectiveness of vaccines. Their findings were impressive but this study maybe actually be underestimating the impacts on public health.“We know that the vaccine for the individual person and what our study set out to do is to really understand what is the population wide impact of the COVID-19 vaccine in California,” said Dr. Nathan Lo with UCSF Infectious Disease Research.
Dr. Lo was one of the researchers who conducted two independent studies looking at the first ten months of vaccinations, comparing those that were vaccinated with those under 12 who weren’t eligible for the shot. The study found roughly 1.5 million cases were prevented, along with 72,000 hospitalizations and 19,000 deaths.
“The impact of the vaccinations are almost surely even larger than we estimate and that’s for two reasons,” said Dr. Lo. “The first is that we don’t only look at the the impact from reduced transmission which is quite large, but the second is we only look at the first ten months of vaccination.”