318,000 Americans Dead Thanks To Vaccine Denial

Vaccine deniers have the blood of thousands on their hands. At least 318,000 Covid-19 related deaths in the US (from January 2021 to April 2022) would have been avoided with readily available vaccines. Anti-vaccine propaganda from certain media, as well as family and friends, directly caused the killing of otherwise healthy Americans. The study was done by Brown University and Microsoft Health. The highest rates of preventable COVID-19 deaths were in:

West Virginia (2,338 preventable deaths)

Wyoming (2,109)

Tennessee (2,077)

Kentucky (2,065)

Oklahoma (1,940).

Hawaii, D.C., Massachusetts, Puerto Rico and Vermont had the lowest number of preventable deaths.

“This compelling data illustrates the trajectory of 50 states with 50 different fates during the COVID-19 pandemic, emphasizing the important role of vaccines in protecting lives in each state”, said Thomas Tsai, a surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Assistant Professor in Health Policy and Management at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

“Having access to data enables us to answer key questions that can help policymakers and the general public make the best decisions around public health,” says Juan Lavista Ferres, chief data scientist and lab director, Microsoft AI for Good Research Lab. “Microsoft’s U.S. Vaccine Preventable Deaths Analysis, in collaboration with Brown University School of Public Health, is an example of how data can be leveraged to provide comprehensive perspectives to ensure proper scenario planning ahead of future pandemics.”

Sources

New Analysis Shows Vaccines Could Have Prevented 318,000 Deaths https://globalepidemics.org/2022/05/13/new-analysis-shows-vaccines-could-have-prevented-318000-deaths/

Vaccine Preventable Deaths Analysis

https://globalepidemics.org/vaccinations/

Further Reading

Estimating Vaccine-Preventable COVID-19 Deaths Under Counterfactual Vaccination Scenarios in the United States https://globalepidemics.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Counterfactual_Preventable_Deaths_13052022.pdf

Current Covid Data Tracker https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/

COVID-19 Misconceptions https://www.factcheck.org/covid-misconceptions/

Evaluating information: what you should know https://media.chop.edu/data/files/pdfs/vaccine-education-center-evaluating-info-qa.pdf

Anti-Vaxxers Misuse Federal Data to Falsely Claim COVID Vaccines Are Dangerous https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjpmp7/anti-vaxxers-misuse-federal-data-to-falsely-claim-covid-vaccines-are-dangerous

Conspiracies Grow as COVID Spreads https://centerforinquiry.org/blog/conspiracies-grow-as-covid-spreads/

An incomplete list of COVID-19 quackery https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/an-incomplete-list-of-covid-19-quackery/

Coronavirus Misinformation Tracking Center

https://www.newsguardtech.com/coronavirus-misinformation-tracking-center/

Myth Busters: Dietary Supplements and COVID-19 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1060028020928052

Red Alert: Anti-Vaccination in the Age of COVID-19 https://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/red-alert-anti-vaccination-in-the-age-of-covid-19/

Is the COVID-19 Vaccine Safe? https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/coronavirus/is-the-covid19-vaccine-safe

Selected Adverse Events Reported after COVID-19 Vaccination https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/adverse-events.html

How Speaking Creates Droplets That May Spread COVID-19 https://physics.aps.org/articles/v13/157

Latest Coronavirus News - Articles Written by Scientists https://theconversation.com/us/covid-19

CDC COVID-19 Websites https://www.cdc.gov/library/researchguides/2019novelcoronavirus/websites.html

Coronavirus: 7 Hidden Motives Behind Conspiracy Belief https://www.mybestbuddymedia.com/2020/04/coronavirus-7-hidden-motives-behind.html

9 Coronavirus Scams Exposed https://www.mybestbuddymedia.com/2020/03/8-coronavirus-scams-exposed.html

14 Simple Ways to Evaluate Potential Health Misinformation https://www.mybestbuddymedia.com/2023/04/14-simple-ways-to-evaluate-potential.html

James Blunt Wants to Inspire Teens to Be Heroes https://www.mybestbuddymedia.com/2021/11/james-blunt-wants-to-inspire-teens-to.html

Gotcha! Basic Tool for Exposing Anti-Vaccine Lies https://www.mybestbuddymedia.com/2021/04/gotcha-basic-tool-for-exposing-anti.html

Con Man Pillow Guy Has The “Cure” For the Coronavirus https://www.mybestbuddymedia.com/2021/03/con-man-pillow-guy-has-cure-for.html

Just One Typical Example of Anti-Vaccine Lies https://www.mybestbuddymedia.com/2023/02/just-one-typical-example-of-anti.html

Exposing the Deniers: 10 Quick Points on The Psychology of Vaccine Denial https://www.mybestbuddymedia.com/2020/04/exposing-deniers-10-quick-points-on.html

Risk Perception: Six Fatal Flaws of the Anti-Vaccine Movement http://www.mybestbuddymedia.com/2018/03/risk-perception-six-fatal-flaws-of-anti.html

The Amish & Autism: Latest Anti-Vax Lie http://www.mybestbuddymedia.com/2017/08/the-amish-autism-latest-anti-vax-lie.html

Kids & Autism: Peer-Reviewed Studies That Make Anti-Vaxxers Squirm http://www.mybestbuddymedia.com/2016/07/kids-autism-peer-reviewed-studies-that.html

Anti-Vaccine: Fraud, Paranoia & Vulnerable Children at Risk http://www.mybestbuddymedia.com/2014/12/anti-vaccine-fraud-paranoia-vulnerable.html

30 Prying and Probing Questions to Bolster Critical Thinking http://www.mybestbuddymedia.com/2016/10/30-prying-and-probing-questions-to.html

How To Avoid Bad Medical Advice: A Basic Guideline http://www.mybestbuddymedia.com/2016/05/how-to-avoid-bad-medical-advice-basic.html

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