Daily News | Unless most people get an annual COVID vaccine, tens of thousands will die in the U.S. each year, a Penn State team finds
is the answer. They recommend instead that healthcare providers focus on vaccinating older people and, when they get COVID, treating them with antiviral drugs.
For many months, the daily number of COVID deaths has remained stubbornly in the hundreds, and there is no sign it is going down anytime soon, said another author of the new study, Penn State associate biology professorThe Penn State study is a pre-print, meaning it has not yet undergone a full review by other scientists — a standard step before formal publication in academic journals.
Among the variables was the degree of virus transmissibility in the future. The projection of 89,000 to 120,000 deaths was based on the assumption that the virus would continue to spread at the current rate. The authors projected different totals for other scenarios in which the virus becomes more or less transmissible.
The low rates in younger people are why Offit, the CHOP vaccine specialist, argues that they don’t need to get repeated annual vaccines. They already are protected against severe disease, so there is no sense subjecting them to the very slight risk of vaccine side effects when the added benefit is minimal, he said in a phone interview.
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