Coverage dated October 4, 2021

Vaccines may have prevented a quarter-million Covid-19 cases and 39,000 deaths among seniors

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By Jen Christensen, CNN Before vaccines, the San Francisco Department of Public Health needed three whiteboards to capture all the names of senior facilities that had Covid-19 outbreaks. “We had been dealing with outbreaks the whole time.

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  1. Local News 8

    Vaccines may have prevented a quarter-million Covid-19 cases and 39,000 deaths among seniors (opens Local News 8)

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    By Jen Christensen, CNN Before vaccines, the San Francisco Department of Public Health needed three whiteboards to capture all the names of senior facilities that had Covid-19 outbreaks. “We had been dealing with outbreaks the whole time.

  2. Michigan Advance

    HHS: Vaccines prevented 8.5K COVID-19 cases, 1.4k deaths among Michigan seniors ⋆ Michigan Advance (opens Michigan Advance)

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    COVID-19 vaccinations in Michigan may have helped prevent about 8,500 seniors from contracting the virus, 1,400 from dying and 3,900 from being hospitalized during spring 2021, according to a medical study published by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Monday.

  3. The Hill

    COVID-19 vaccines may have saved the lives of 39,000 seniors in US: HHS study (opens The Hill)

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    COVID-19 vaccines may have saved the lives of tens of thousands seniors nationwide early this year, according to estimates from a

  4. WMUR

    Vaccines may have prevented thousands of COVID-19 cases and deaths among seniors, new report says (opens WMUR)

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    The report says vaccinations prevented at least a quarter of a million COVID-19 infections among seniors and tens of thousands of deaths just between January and May of this year.

  5. Fox News

    Vaccines linked to preventing over a quarter-million COVID-19 cases, 39,000 deaths among seniors: HHS study (opens Fox News)

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    Department of Health and Human Services reports that COVID-19 vaccinations may have helped to prevent more than a quarter-million coronavirus cases and tens of thousands of deaths among seniors.

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