COVID-19 vaccines saved more than 8,000 lives in NYC, study says

Coronavirus vaccinations prevented a staggering 8,300 deaths and 44,000 hospitalizations in New York City during the first six months of 2021, according to preliminary new figures from a Yale University study conducted with the city’s Health Department.

Overall, the data released Wednesday shows that the jabs campaign stopped a projected 250,000 new coronavirus infections — and that just 1.1 percent of all new cases in the five boroughs came from fully vaccinated New Yorkers. “The bottom line is, vaccination saves lives,” Dr. Alison Galvani — a Yale epidemiologist and the paper’s author — said during the mayor’s daily press briefing.