Last updated on 15-1-2025 by Joris Van Loenhout
Peer reviewed scientific article
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Margaux M I Meslé; Jeremy Brown; Mook, Piers; Mark A Katz; José Hagan; Pastore, Roberta; Benka, Bernhard; Monika Redlberger-Fritz; Nathalie Bossuyt; Veerle Stouten; Catharina Vernemmen; Elisabet Constantinou; Marek Maly; Jan Kynčl; Ondrej Sanca; Tyra Grove Krause; Vestergaard, Lasse Skafte; Leino, Tuija; Poukka, Eero; Gkolfinopoulou, Kassiani; Mellou, Kassiani; Maria Tsintziloni; Zsuzsanna Molnár; Gudrun Aspelund; Marianna Thordardottir; Domegan, Lisa; Kelly, Eva; Joan O'Donell; Urdiales, Alberto-Mateo; Riccardo, Flavia; Sacco, Chiara; Bumšteinas, Viktoras; Liausediene, Rasa; Mossong, Joel; Vergison, Anne; Maria-Louise Borg; Melillo, Tanya; Dragan Kocinski; Pollozhani, Enkela; Hinta Meijerink; Diana Costa; Gomes, João Paulo; Leite, Pedro Pinto; Alina Druc; Gutu, Veaceslav; Mita, Valentin; Mihaela Lazar; Popescu, Rodica; Odette Popovici; Monika Musilová; Maja Mrzel; Maja Socan; Učakar, Veronika; Aurora Limia; Clara Mazagatos; Carmen Olmedo; Gavin Dabrera; Kall, Meaghan; Sinnathamby, Mary; Graham McGowan; Jim McMenamin; Kirsty Morrison; Dorit Nitzan; Marc-Alain Widdowson; Catherine Smallwood; Pebody, RichardTrefwoorden
Samenvatting:
BACKGROUND: By March, 2023, 54 countries, areas, and territories (hereafter CAT) in the WHO European Region had reported more than 2·2 million COVID-19-related deaths to the WHO Regional Office for Europe. Here, we estimated how many lives were directly saved by vaccinating adults in the WHO European Region from December, 2020, to March, 2023.
METHODS: In this retrospective surveillance study, we estimated the number of lives directly saved by age group, vaccine dose, and circulating variant-of-concern (VOC) period, regionally and nationally, using weekly data on COVID-19 mortality and i…