My article basically explains that all the children that are vaccinated between the years of 1994-2013 have prevented 732,000 early deaths in the United States. “732,000: American Lives Saved by Vaccination” from New York Times gives the percentages of all the main vaccines that children get including DTaP, polio,measles, Haemophilus influenzae Type B, hepatitis B, chickenpox, and pneumococcus. All of the children that got those series of vaccinations are not only being prevented from getting the virus/bacteria, but they’re also preventing early deaths in the U.S. Another great thing about all these high percentages, it shows that all of these parents care for the well being of their own children. I think that the parents taking initiative and getting their kids vaccinated is a fantastic thing on their part. And of course, the parents who are below the poverty line and can’t afford vaccines, I can understand their situation and how they couldn’t get their kids cleared. My mother is a germ-a-phob, if there’s anyway possible my sisters and I won’t get sick, we do it. Germ-x’s in our lunch boxes, vaccines, medicine, vitamin C, ANYTHING. So knowing that all the vaccines I have gotten since I’ve been alive (since 2000), have let me know I’m one of the kids that have prevented one of the 732,000 deaths. This event impacts the world because it’s prevented hundreds of thousands of early deaths. That’s an enormous amount of people that have been saved just by a series of shots. In the article, it states that vaccines alone have prevented around 322 million illnesses and 21,000 hospitalizations over the past two decades, saving health care a net savings or $1.38 trillion. All of these small, sometimes painful shots have saved the lives of many and also our economy by saving our health care tons of money. Just like Dr. Cohn says in the article, “We sometimes forget how much disease we’re preventing” with just vaccines.