234,000 Covid Deaths Could Have Been Prevented: Analysis
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234,000 Covid Deaths Could Have Been Prevented: Analysis

A new analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation estimates that since June 2021, when vaccines were widely available to American adults, about 234,000 deaths could have been prevented if those unvaccinated people had gotten their shots. “These vaccine-preventable deaths represent 60% of all adult COVID-19 deaths since June 2021, and a quarter (24%) of the nearly 1 million COVID-19 deaths since the pandemic began,” the analysis says.

“It is rare that there is a political issue that translates directly into literal death. This is one,” The Washington Post’s Philip Bump writes. “Skepticism about vaccination — an impulse stoked opportunistically by Republican politicians such as Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and right-wing media figures such as Fox News’s Tucker Carlson — suppressed immunization rates among Republicans. More than 200,000 people died without the protection that the vaccines demonstrably offered.”

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