Vaccinations against Covid-19 in Poland saved 61,000 lives: economists
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Vaccinations against Covid-19 saved about 61,000 people in Poland from death in 2021, the economists of the Institute for Structural Research (IBS) have calculated.
"Vaccinations reduced the number of deaths from Covid-19 in 2021 in Poland by half compared to the situation if vaccines were not available. The vast majority of the rescued patients are people over the age of 60,” think tank experts wrote in the recently published report.
In their calculations, they took into account the number of vaccinated people in different age groups and the difference in the number of deaths in unvaccinated and vaccinated people in a given group and a given month.
“The impact of vaccinations was already visible in April, at the peak of the spring wave of cases, when the number of avoided deaths reached 11,000. However, the greatest effect of vaccinations was visible during the autumn wave of cases (the level of vaccination of the population reached 54 percent then). In December alone, vaccinations saved 25,000 lives, and in November 13,000 lives,” IBS economists said.
Meanwhile, today's number of new coronavirus infections in Poland is 53,420 cases – the Ministry of Health reported. This is the highest number of new cases per day since the start of the pandemic.
