The burden of COVID-19 in French Guiana: Vaccine-averted deaths, hospitalizations and costs.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

French Guiana, the least-vaccinated French territory, also has the lowest COVID-19 vaccination coverage in Latin America. We aimed to estimate how many deaths, hospitalizations and costs the vaccines had and could have avoided.

Methods

We calculated the Number Needed to Vaccinate to prevent one death per year, 1 standard hospitalization, 1 Intensive Care Unit admission given the mean incidence numbers of the past 6 months, and divided the number of persons vaccinated to estimate how many deaths and hospitalizations had been avoided in French Guiana at that time.

Results

The crude number needed to vaccinate to prevent one death per year, the crude number needed to vaccinate to prevent one hospitalization per 6 months were computed Based on our observed incid

SUBMITTER: Nacher M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9918439 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature