60% of Covid deaths since the vaccine became available could have been prevented

Half the Americans who died with COVID since vaccines became available might have been saved by getting the shot. That's 319,000 preventable deaths.

States where the most lives could've been saved: West Virginia, Wyoming, Tennessee, Kentucky and Oklahoma.https://t.co/hBprYz4ZTb

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) May 18, 2022

One tragic fact about the nearly 1 million people who have died of COVID-19 in the U.S. is that a huge share of them didn't have to.

Nationally, nearly 319,000 deaths could have been prevented with vaccination, according a new estimate. https://t.co/88M9amVCVC

— NPR Politics (@nprpolitics) May 13, 2022

The human cost of anti-vaccine politicking is almost incomprehensible in scale. https://t.co/ZeJH8knvH6

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) April 21, 2022

Most adults in the U.S. have gotten a #COVID19 vaccine, but most of those who have died from the virus have been unvaccinated.

Our analysis estimates that vaccines could have prevented 234,000 deaths since June: https://t.co/MxPhJXH9wg pic.twitter.com/yoGvliuFLO

— KFF (Kaiser Family Foundation) (@KFF) April 22, 2022

Who is still dying of COVID in 2022?

In 23 studied U.S. jurisdictions, among people who died of COVID in January:

78% were 65 & over
58% were unvaccinated
87% didn't have a booster shot

15% were under 65 & unvaccinated
Only 1.5% were under 65 & boostedhttps://t.co/0WN7zxmOQY pic.twitter.com/yJnDR8fyzB

— Emma Wager (@emmawage) April 21, 2022

Over 10 months, COVID-19 vaccines prevented more than 1.5 million infections and about 20,000 deaths in California, a new study estimates https://t.co/xS0a9dabrU

— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) April 22, 2022