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Posted: October 5, 2021

Associations Between County-level Vaccination Rates and COVID-19 Outcomes Among Medicare Beneficiaries

PUBLICATION DATE

October 5, 2021

AUTHORS

Lok Wong Samson, Wafa Tarazi, E. John Orav, Steven Sheingold, Nancy De Lew, and Benjamin D. Sommers

Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

The purpose of this study is to identify associations between COVID-19 infections, hospitalizations, and deaths among Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) beneficiaries and the proportion of the population fully vaccinated at the county-level between January and May 2021.

We do so by using a combination of person-level Medicare FFS claims and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data on county-level vaccination rates. Based on these results, we then estimated the net reduction in infections, hospitalizations, and deaths among all 62.7 million Medicare beneficiaries associated with the first 5 months of the U.S.’s COVID-19 vaccine roll-out.

Our results indicate that COVID-19 vaccinations from January until May 2021 were associated with an estimated reduction of more than 265,000 COVID-19 infections and nearly 39,000 deaths among Medicare beneficiaries.

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New ASPE Report: “Associations Between County-level Vaccination Rates & COVID-19 Outcomes Among Medicare Beneficiaries.” Vaccinations in January-May 2021 were linked to about 265,000 fewer #COVID19 infections & 39,000 fewer deaths in Medicare. https://t.co/TIi7HTtUPi pic.twitter.com/Aw1fIWLYQO

— HHS_ASPE (@HHS_ASPE) October 5, 2021

#Vaccines are a key component in controlling the #COVID19 #pandemic. A recent @HHS_ASPE study found that COVID-19 vaccinations were linked to reductions of approx. 265,000 infections, 107,000 hospitalizations and 39,000 deaths among Medicare beneficiaries. https://t.co/nqGnP1uaLa pic.twitter.com/5XJwhKfrg9

— HHS.gov (@HHSGov) October 5, 2021