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Tue Sep 3, 2024, 02:25 PM
Sep 2024
A new modeling study in JAMA Health Forum found that Covid-19 precautions, like mask mandates and vaccine requirements, could have saved as many as 250,000 lives in the United States by reducing excess deaths, or deaths that occur above what researchers predict for a typical time period.

“If all states had imposed restrictions similar to those used in the 10 most restrictive states, excess deaths would have been an estimated 10% to 21% lower than the 1.18 million that actually occurred during the 2-year analysis period,” the study’s author wrote.


JAMA article is : https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-health-forum/fullarticle/2821581

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