; ; ; "ActiveFedora::Aggregation::ListSource" . a , ; "The Impact of Vaccines and Behavior on U.S. Cumulative Deaths from COVID-19"; ; "kate.s.hansel@mpls.frb.org"; ; ; "Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis"; "I00 - Health, Education, and Welfare: General", "I12 - Health Behavior"; "The CDC reports that 1.13 million Americans have died of COVID-19 through June of 2023. I use a model of the impact over the past three years of vaccines and private and public behavior to mitigate disease transmission during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States to address two questions. First, holding the strength of the response of behavior to the level of daily deaths from COVID-19 fixed, what was the impact of vaccines on cumulative mortality from COVID-19 up through June 2023? And second, holding the pace of deployment of vaccinations fixed, what would have been the impact of stricter or looser behavioral responses to COVID-19 deaths on cumulative mortality from COVID-19 over this same time period? In answering the first question, I find that vaccines saved 748,600 lives through June 2023. That is, without vaccines, cumulative mortality from COVID-19 would have been closer to 1.91 million over this time period. In answering the second question, I find that behavioral efforts to slow the transmission of the virus before vaccines became widely administered were critical to this positive impact of vaccines on cumulative mortality. For example, with a complete relaxation of these mitigation efforts, vaccines would have come too late to have saved a significant number of lives. Earlier deployment of vaccines would have saved many lives. I find that marginal changes in the strength of the behavioral response to COVID-19 deaths within the range of those responses estimated with the model have a significantly smaller impact on cumulative COVID-19 mortality over this time period."^^; "2023-08-23"; "2023-08-23T16:28:42.229784693+00:00"^^; "https://doi.org/10.21034/sr.649"; ; "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/"; "2023-08-23T20:15:58.980777798+00:00"^^; "Research Paper"; "39"; "Staff report (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Research Department)"; "649"; "COVID-19 mortality", "Vaccines", "Behavior"; ; ; ; ; "Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Research Department"; ; "Publication" . ; .