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2023-05-06 19:14:38 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: DE6EFA1485E4B516999ED6269487508F696BA281208F7A44EDB74C277D4E92FD
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COVID vaccines saved an estimated 19.8 million lives in their first year. https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19-vaccines-saved-estimated-20-million-lives-1-year https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(22)00320-6/fulltext In the early 1950s, before polio vaccines, polio caused >15,000 cases of paralysis per year in the USA. When polio vaccines became available, cases fell to <100 in the 1960s and <10 in the 1970s https://www.cdc.gov/polio/why-are-we-involved/index.htm
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