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How Vaccines Saved Money and Lives and China's Zero-COVID Protests: COVID, Quickly Podcast, Episode 44

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How Did Vaccines Save New York City?

Vaccines saved the city about $28 billion, which is what it would have lost without them. The direct costs of COVID-related health care hospitals and such like were about $7.5 billion with vaccines. Without them, the costs jumped to $33 billion. Costs like the value of lost workdays came to almost $2 billion with vaccination.

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