Vaccines are actually TERRIBLE business. Pharma makes their real money selling super-expensive cures to keep old sick people alive because they’re willing to spend anything to be not dead. People don’t spend much on preventative measures, and vaccines in particular take lots of resources to develop, then aside from a few standard vaccinations, they generally only sell well when there’s a panic of some sort, so you’re investing a ton of money hoping there’s an outbreak that you can cure, and otherwise you wasted $millions, which is why they don’t bother to productize vaccines fairly often. The main reason there are vaccines is that the government insists on a few standard vaccinations for the public health, so they can count on those sales. It turns out that if you leave public health up to individuals and pharma, they screw it up badly, which is why the PUBLIC has to drive public health.
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