LOS ANGELES - A recent study from the Yale School of Public Health and the Commonwealth Fund published on Wednesday estimates that rapid rollout of COVID-19 vaccines prevented nearly 300,000 additional deaths.
Researchers say without the current vaccination program in place, by the end of June 2021 there would have been an additional 1.25 million hospitalizations. "If the U.S.
had achieved only half the actual pace of vaccination, there would have been nearly 121,000 additional deaths and more than 450,000 additional hospitalizations," study authors wrote. RELATED: Global COVID-19 death toll passes 4 million peopleNo vaccination program would have resulted in nearly 4,500 deaths per day during the second 2021 spring surge of the virus,.