The health authorities have started to reduce the COVID-19 vaccine...· The research team saved 2.53 million lives in four years

Jul 27, 2025

The health authorities have started to reduce the COVID-19 vaccine...· The research team saved 2.53 million lives in four years
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Robert Kennedy Jr., known as the "Vaccine Skeptic" Secretary of State for Health and Human Services, has filed a lawsuit against six major U.S. medical organizations against the recommendation of major vaccines such as COVID-19 and flu vaccines since taking office. The total life-years of 2.53 million people worldwide saved by COVID-19 vaccination between 2020 and 2024 are 14.8 million years, according to an analysis.

This is the result of a recent study by Stanford University Professor John P. A. Ioannidis and Catholic University Professor Stefania Boucha of Sacro Cuore in Rome, Italy, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA Health Forum).

In this study, the research team calculated the number of lives and years of life saved by the vaccine by dividing the global population into various layers, including age, community or long-term care facility residence, pre- or post-Omicron vaccination, and pre- or post-COVID-19 infection vaccination, from the start of the 2020 COVID-19 vaccination campaign to Oct. 1, 2024. The number of years of life is a yearly measure of life expectancy that can survive without disease or accident, and the number of years of life saved is the sum of the additional life expectancy due to the prevention of early death.




As a result of the analysis, there were a total of 2.533 million deaths prevented by COVID-19 vaccination worldwide between 2020 and 2024, meaning that one person saved a life for every 5,400 doses of the vaccine.

Of those who saved their lives by vaccination, 82% were vaccinated before contracting the COVID-19 virus (a SARS-CoV-2), 57% were vaccinated during the Omicron variant, and 90% were aged 60 or older. The number of additional life years to prevent death by vaccination reached 14.8 million years, and it was analyzed that for every 900 vaccinations, one vaccinated person's life increased by one year. In addition, 76% of the life years saved were found in those aged 60 or older, indicating that the protection effect of the COVID-19 vaccine was greatest for the elderly, who are vulnerable.

Meanwhile, major medical organizations, including the American Public Health Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Infectious Diseases, the American Medical Association, the Maternal and Prenatal Medical Association, and the Massachusetts Public Health Association, have filed a lawsuit against Secretary Kennedy Jr. and the Ministry of Health and Human Services to restore the COVID-19 vaccine recommendation as before, claiming that the suspension of the COVID-19 vaccine recommendation to healthy children and pregnant women is unscientific and harmful to public health.






This article was translated by Naver AI translator.