Better vaccination rates could have prevented COVID deaths

YUMA, Ariz. (KYMA, KECY-T/ CNN) - A new report suggests higher vaccination rates could have prevented half the COVID-19 deaths in the United States since early 2021.

That's when most adults became eligible for vaccines in the US.

Vaccination reached a peak of more than three-million doses administered each day in April 2021.

Researchers found that if each state had continued at their peak vaccination rate until all adults were fully vaccinated about 319-thousand lives could have been saved.

That would have cut the total number of COVID-19 deaths in the US by about a third. 

And deaths between January 2021 and April of this year in half.

Better vaccination rates could have prevented COVID deaths.