For example
DTaP vaccine ~ $45
Doctor visit for pertussis ~ $500
Hospitalization for pertussis ~$5,000
And that's just one of the three diseases in the vaccine #VaccinesWork
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No, private companies do not operate businesses that are a ~loss~. In USA, vaccine is an "add on" to healthy baby visit. It is pure profit for doctors. And it is also profit for companies that make them: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/02/vaccines-are-profitable-so-what/385214/ …
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It all depends how we define profit. Producing and selling vaccines makes money, but the drugs required to treat infectious disease make far more. If everyone was sicker, pharma would rake in far more from infectious disease
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