Table 2.
Estimates for the reduction in all‐cause mortality among those aged 65+ years following the mid‐2000 change in policy from a risk‐based vaccination strategy to a risk and age‐based vaccination strategy
| Reductiona (WIY model) | Reductiona (ST model) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age group | Mean | 95% CI | Mean | 95% CI |
| 65+ | 732 | 66‐1398 | 775 | 131‐1418 |
| 65‐74 | 179 | 29‐330 | 216 | 75‐358 |
| 75‐84 | 293 | 21‐565 | 327 | 67‐588 |
| 85+ | 384 | 130‐637 | 330 | 69‐594 |
CI, confidence interval, based on a normal distribution.
a
The number of deaths in the individual age categories may not sum to the total due to rounding errors.