Are COVID-19 vaccines safe and effective?

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More than 182 million Americans have received at least one shot of new COVID-19 vaccines.

Early in the pandemic many had suggested that was immunological threshold at which a population might achieve herd immunity.

Achieving herd immunity depends upon vaccines and natural infection creating durable long-term protection against reinfection.

COVID-19 vaccines and boosters have proved to be highly effective in preventing severe cases, hospitalizations, and deaths.

Recent research in The Lancet calculates that COvid-19 vaccinations between December 2020 and March 2023 saved approximately 1.6 million lives in Europe .

In 2023 , a team of researchers estimated that " at least 232,000 deaths" in the U.S. "could have been prevented among unvaccinated adults".

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