Rate of vaccine-preventable COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. by state 2021-2022

Between January 1, 2021 and April 30, 2022 the death rate due to COVID-19 in the United States was about 2,487 per one million population. An analysis published in May 2022 found that if 100 percent of the population in the United States had been vaccinated at this time then the death rate over this period would have been around 1,237 per one million population. It was estimated that a 100 percent vaccination rate could have prevented 318,981 of 641,305 total deaths reported over this period. As of May 2022, around 66 percent of the U.S. population had been fully vaccinated against COVID-19. This table shows the actual death rate due to COVID-19 in the United States between January 2021 and April 2022 compared to the death rate if 100 percent of the population had been vaccinated.