Margaux M I Meslé, Jeremy Brown, Piers Mook, Mark A Katz, José Hagan, Roberta Pastore, Bernhard Benka, Monika Redlberger-Fritz, Nathalie Bossuyt, Veerle Stouten, Catharina Vernemmen, Elisabet Constantinou, Marek Maly, Jan Kynčl, Ondrej Sanca, Tyra Grove Krause, Lasse Skafte Vestergaard, Tuija Leino, Eero Poukka, Kassiani Gkolfinopoulou, Kassiani Mellou, Maria Tsintziloni, Zsuzsanna Molnár, Gudrun Aspelund, Marianna Thordardottir, Lisa Domegan, Eva Kelly, Joan O'Donell, Alberto-Mateo Urdiales, Flavia Riccardo, Chiara Sacco, Viktoras Bumšteinas, Rasa Liausediene, Joël Mossong, Anne Vergison, Maria-Louise Borg, Tanya Melillo, Dragan Kocinski, Enkela Pollozhani, Hinta Meijerink, Diana Costa, João Paulo Gomes, Pedro Pinto Leite, Alina Druc, Veaceslav Gutu, Valentin Mita, Mihaela Lazar, Rodica Popescu, Odette Popovici, Monika Musilová, Maja Mrzel, Maja Socan, Veronika Učakar, Aurora Limia, Clara Mazagatos, Carmen Olmedo, Gavin Dabrera, Meaghan Kall, Mary Sinnathamby, Graham McGowan, Jim McMenamin, Kirsty Morrison, Dorit Nitzan, Marc-Alain Widdowson, Catherine Smallwood, Richard Pebody
BACKGROUND: By March, 2023, 54 countries, areas, and territories (hereafter CAT) in the WHO European Region had reported more than 2·2 million COVID-19-related deaths to the WHO Regional Office for Europe. Here, we estimated how many lives were directly saved by vaccinating adults in the WHO European Region from December, 2020, to March, 2023. METHODS: In this retrospective surveillance study, we estimated the number of lives directly saved by age group, vaccine dose, and circulating variant-of-concern (VOC) period, regionally and nationally, using weekly data on COVID-19 mortality and infection, COVID-19 vaccination uptake, and SARS-CoV-2 virus characterisations by lineage downloaded from The European Surveillance System on June 11, 2023, as well as vaccine effectiveness data from the literature...
September 2024: Lancet Respiratory Medicine