{"id":148265,"date":"2025-07-28T14:22:32","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T19:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldtribune.com\/?p=148265"},"modified":"2025-07-28T14:22:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T19:22:32","slug":"lifesaver-covid-shots-saved-2-5-million-not-19-5-million-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/lifesaver-covid-shots-saved-2-5-million-not-19-5-million-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Lifesaver? Covid shots saved 2.5 million, not 19.5 million, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"

by<\/em><\/span> WorldTribune<\/strong> Staff<\/em><\/span><\/span>, July 28, 2025 <\/em>Real World News<\/span><\/a>
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The Covid injections saved 2.5 million lives between 2020 and 2024, according to a new Stanford University-led study.<\/p>\n

That’s about 17 million fewer than major media reports had suggested.<\/p>\n

\"\"The reduction amounts to the equivalent of one death averted for every 5,400 vax doses administered worldwide during the period, according to the findings published Friday<\/a> in JAMA Health Forum.<\/p>\n

The study stated that 90% of the lives saved by the shots were among individuals age 60 or older, and 82% stemmed from shots administered before they tested positive for Covid.<\/p>\n

Among the 4 billion people younger than 30 who represent half the global population, the study estimates that Covid shots saved only about 2,000 lives.<\/p>\n

The study found Covid injections saved only a quarter of a million people aged 30 to 59, who account for slightly less than 3 billion out of 8 billion people on the planet.<\/p>\n

Official estimates say 7 million people died from the virus worldwide between 2020 and 2024.<\/p>\n

Stanford epidemiologist John P. A. Ioannidis, the study’s lead author, said the \u201csubstantial uncertainty\u201d of official Covid death data calls for rigorous long-term randomized trials of future vaccines, which did not occur in the rush to jab people during the Covid pandemic.<\/p>\n

According to Dr. Ioannidis, \u201cmandates and punitive measures\u201d aimed at inoculating the young likely kept many older people with major health problems away from the shots, reducing their effectiveness where they were most needed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe mandates and the aggressive push to vaccinate everyone probably did not help, and the coercive, almost messianic messaging caused damage to public health with an increase in vaccine hesitancy and loss of trust in medicine and medical science,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

In an invited commentary published alongside the study, epidemiologist Monica Gandhi endorsed its recommendation that future pandemic vaccines focus on reaching at-risk adults rather than the entire population.<\/p>\n

\u201cLong-shuttered schools in the U.S. was not necessary to protect children and did harm them in terms of leading to learning loss, especially among children from high poverty backgrounds,\u201d said Dr. Gandhi, a University of California at San Francisco medical professor.<\/p>\n

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