By Michael Greenwood
July 8, 2021
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The coordinated and rapid COVID-19 vaccination campaign launched in the United States late last year has saved some 279,000 lives and prevented 1.25 million hospitalizations, a new study led by the Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) finds.
These gains, however, could be swiftly reversed by the highly transmissible Delta variant, which has the potential to unleash a surge of new cases among the millions of people in the United States who remain unvaccinated.
“The vaccines have been strikingly successful in reducing the spread of the virus and saving hundreds of thousands of lives in the United States alone,” said lead author Alison Galvani, the Burnett and Stender Families Professor of Epidemiology and the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Modeling and Analysis at YSPH.
U S COVID-19 vaccination campaign has saved 279,000 lives and prevented 1 25 million hospitalizations, Yale School of Public Health study finds
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Amid the whirlwind of changes to campus life during the early days of COVID-19, the Yale Center for Genome Analysis was among a handful of Yale facilities with the specialized technology necessary to investigate the biological and chemical functions and mechanisms at play within the virus. In an interview, Shrikant Mane director of the center and of the Keck Biotechnology Resource Laboratory, and professor of genetics discussed the center’s COVID-19 research.
Early in the pandemic, Alison Galvani, Burnett and Stender Families Professor of Epidemiology and director of the Center for Infectious Disease Modeling and Analysis, and her team began analyzing various scenarios for COVID-19’s spread in the U.S. and how self-isolation rates by symptomatic individuals could affect demand for Intensive Care Unit (ICU) beds. In early April she discussed the urgency of self-isolation even for those who were even “mildly symptomatic.”