More Than 90,000 COVID-19 Deaths Preventable

The Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker estimated earlier this month that more than 90,000 COVID-19 deaths since June 2021 likely would have been prevented with vaccinations.

The Health System Tracker, a partnership of the Peterson Center on Healthcare and KFF (Kaiser Family Foundation), looked at COVID-19 deaths among unvaccinated people in the months after vaccines were widely available, June through September 2021.

“In September 2021 alone, approximately 49,000 deaths likely would have been averted if they [unvaccinated Americans] had chosen to get vaccinated against COVID-19,” the Health System Tracker said in an Oct. 13 blog post.

“The overwhelming majority of COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths continue to be preventable.”