Suboptimal COVID-19 vaccination coverage in Florida and Texas [View all]
Implications of suboptimal COVID-19 vaccination coverage in Florida and Texas
Pratha Sah
Seyed M Moghadas
Thomas N Vilches
Affan Shoukat
Burton H Singer
Peter J Hotez
et al.
Published:October 07, 2021
... We found that enhanced vaccination would have markedly blunted the increase in cases, hospital admissions, and deaths in Florida and Texas ...Achieving 74·0% vaccination coverage by July 31 and continuing with the associated daily rate would have averted 664 007 additional cases .. in Florida and 647 906 additional cases .. in Texas ... By Aug 31, the enhanced vaccination in Florida would have reduced hospital admissions by 61 327 .. and deaths by 16235 ... The reduction in hospital admissions in Texas during the same period would have been 37 587 .. and the reduction in deaths would have been 6353 ... Collectively, these two states could have averted more than 95 000 hospital admissions and 22 000 deaths had they reached the vaccination coverage achieved by the top five states and continued at the same pace until Aug 31, 2021 ...
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(21)00620-4/fulltext
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