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Americans Vaccinated Against Coronavirus Have Lower Mortality Rates — Even From Non-Covid Causes

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Nurses draw Covid-19 vaccine doses from a vial on March 25, 2021 in Bowie, Maryland.
 
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People who are vaccinated against Covid-19 are less likely to die for any reason — including from non-coronavirus causes — than the unvaccinated, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study released Friday, which researchers framed as more proof of the vaccines’ safety despite stubborn levels of vaccine hesitancy.

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Partially and fully vaccinated people died from non-coronavirus causes at a lower rate than their unvaccinated peers, according to the study, which looked at millions of patients at seven U.S. health organizations from December to July.

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