Covid jabs ‘could have prevented 7,180 summer hospital admissions and deaths’
by Jane Kirby
Jan 16, 2024
3 minutes
More than 7,000 hospital admissions and deaths in the UK could have been avoided in summer 2022 if people had had all their Covid jabs, a study suggests.
Experts found that between a third and a half of people had not had the recommended number of Covid vaccinations and boosters by June 1, 2022, equating to almost 27 million people in England alone.
The study, led by Health Data Research UK (HDR UK) and the University of Edinburgh, used anonymised health data
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