According to the organizations, the measles vaccine has contributed most to reducing mortality. These vaccinations would have prevented almost 94 million deaths. The tetanus shot kept almost 28 million people alive. More than 13 million people have not died from whooping cough due to vaccination.
Almost all the people who survived were younger than 5 years old. According to the study, 9 billion years of life have been saved by reducing child mortality. The injections also helped people avoid health damage that would otherwise have bothered them for the rest of their lives, such as polio. According to the study, this has resulted in 10.2 billion healthy life years.
Response
Yet the diseases have not disappeared. According to the researchers, 130 million children have died since the beginning of this century from diseases that could have been prevented with vaccines.
In a response, director Suzanne Laszlo of UNICEF Netherlands warns. “Economic crises, environmental threats and increasing distrust in science threaten to undermine progress and put millions of lives at risk. We must continue to invest structurally in combating disinformation and providing the right information to maintain confidence in vaccinations.’
