{"id":4589,"date":"2024-02-09T12:51:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T17:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=4589"},"modified":"2024-02-13T21:08:16","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T02:08:16","slug":"covid-19-vaccines-saved-thousands-of-lives-during-omicron-outbreak-study-estimates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/covid-19-vaccines-saved-thousands-of-lives-during-omicron-outbreak-study-estimates\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: Vaccines saved thousands of lives during Omicron outbreak, study estimates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new study estimates vaccines prevented between 4000 and 12,000 deaths during the Omicron phase of the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The paper, published in the medical journal <i>Vaccine<\/i>, models scenarios with different levels of vaccine coverage in the 18&nbsp;months from January 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The authors say the elimination strategy meant most people were able to be vaccinated before being exposed to the virus.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers say it meant there were between 34,000 and 56,000 fewer hospitalisations over the period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study estimates vaccines prevented between 4000 and 12,000 deaths during the Omicron phase of the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The paper, published in the medical journal <i>Vaccine<\/i>, models scenarios with different levels of vaccine coverage in the 18&nbsp;months from January 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The authors say the elimination strategy meant most people were able to be vaccinated before being exposed to the virus.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers say it meant there were between 34,000 and 56,000 fewer hospitalisations over the period.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/covid-19-vaccines-saved-thousands-of-lives-during-omicron-outbreak-study-estimates\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Covid-19: Vaccines saved thousands of lives during Omicron outbreak, study estimates<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[811,18,78,521,55,97,8,14,15,314],"class_list":["post-4589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-aotearoa","tag-covid-19","tag-hospitalizations","tag-new-zealand","tag-omicron","tag-pandemic-response","tag-research","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-vaccines","tag-zero-covid-policies","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4589"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4591,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4589\/revisions\/4591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}