Vaccines save patients and governments money
They are a ~loss~ for private companies
A single vaccine costs tens of dollars
A single attendance for vaccine-preventable disease costs hundreds/thousands #VaccinesWorkhttps://twitter.com/DrJenGunter/status/1113645207935799296 …
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Replying to @GidMK
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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Replying to @DietEvidence
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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Replying to @GidMK
I agree that vaccines reduce "profit opportunity" but that does not make them a loss. But reduced "profit opportunity" may explain why pharma is not promoting them more. I do, however, see big promotion for influenza vaccines.
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I think that's probably a big part of it yes. The promoters of vaccines are the people who benefit: patients and governments
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