Vaccines could have prevented at least 318K COVID-19 deaths in the US, study says

1 million deaths from COVID-19, researchers say hundreds of thousands of those could have been prevented.A new analysis done by researchers at Brown School of Public Health, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard T.H.

Chan School of Public Health and Microsoft AI for Health shows that vaccines could have averted at least 318,000 COVID-19 deaths between January 2021 and April 2022."In spring 2021 ...

the prognosis was suddenly upbeat: Science had delivered a miracle. Not just one, but several effective vaccines against the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 were produced, tested and approved in record time," Brown University School of Public Health faculty said in a report.A year later, "the optimism has vanished," researchers said."In year two of the pandemic, thousands of Americans still died every day — from what by then had become largely preventable complications from Covid-19 — in one of the richest nations in the world, despite unprecedented federal, state, city and community efforts to inoculate people against it."RELATED: 3rd round of free COVID tests available to order now in USThe team of researchers created a dashboard using data from the U.S.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and The New York Times. It breaks down numbers in each state and shows how many deaths there likely would have been if each state had continued vaccinating at the same pace when demand was highest.More than half of all COVID-19 deaths in America could have been avoided if vaccine demand had remained at peak levels throughout 2021 and 2022, the report said.(Photo by Robyn Beck / AFP) (Photo by ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images) According to the analysis, the percentage of preventable deaths in each state varied greatly.