Vaccine Mandates at Colleges, Universities Saved Lives: Study

A "speculative" study contends that fall 2021 vaccine mandates at colleges and universities saved lives, KNEWZ reports.

The study was conducted by the National Bureau of Economic Research.

The news organization offers this quote from the researchers: 

“We calculate that four-year college vaccine mandates during the 13 weeks we consider avoided approximately 7,300 deaths, which is about 5 percent of total deaths from Covid-19 during this period,” the researchers wrote.

The researchers argue their study is a "more accurate way to measure geographical vaccine impact than hospital-based studies, because the number of ICU patients, hospitalizations and deaths are based on the hospital location rather than patients’ counties of residence."