COVID vaccines could have saved an additional 13,000 Georgia lives: research

According to a new study, more than 13,000 COVID-19 deaths in Georgia — and around 319,000 nationwide — might have been avoided if vaccines were readily accessible early last year.

According to the research published on the Brown Academy of People Health's Global Outbreak webpage, in Georgia, 13,598 of 25,737 Coronavirus fatalities (or 3,174.6 per 1 million people), or about three-fourths of all fatalities caused by the virus, could have been prevented with vaccine protection.

As a descendant of the omicron variant becomes the dominant strain of the virus, a dashboard revealing a state-by-state breakdown of avoidable Coronavirus demise from January 2021 through May 2019 was published earlier this month as a descendant of the omicron variant.

Since the first COVID-19 deaths were recorded in 2020, more than 1 million people in the United States have died as a result of the virus. According to data kept by The New York Times, monthly reports of new COVID-19 infections have increased threefold since April, with incidents increasing in almost every state but especially on the East and West

Case reports in those areas are now greater than they were last summer when the delta variant outbreak occurred. However, because of the availability of at-home tests for COVID-19 infections that do not show up in official counts, the number of individuals infected with COVID-19 may be underreported.

According to the CDC, 15,060 COVID infections have been reported in Georgia since June 3. The seven-day positivity rate has risen from single digits May 1 to 19 percent on June. 1 Overall, there have been 20 COVID cases identified in Georgia this year; 11 of them were found on April 10 and the other 9 on both

The CDC reported that the number of hospitalizations is also on the rise, with new admissions in Florida at a seven-day moving average of 84.29 cases. The state recorded 44 deaths within seven days ending June 1.