'Lives were saved': NYC COVID-19 vaccination effort prevented 250,000 cases, 8,300 deaths

NEW YORK -- New York City’s vaccination campaign has prevented thousands of cases and about 8,300 COVID-related deaths in 2021, an analysis shows. Epidemiologists at Yale University, supported by the Commonwealth Fund, found that NYC’s push to get people vaccinated prevented 250,000 COVID-19 cases, 44,000 hospitalizations and 8,300 deaths since the beginning of the vaccine [...]