Yes, it’s a money trail. Just follow the money.
My brother was a GP, General Practitioner. He never recommended the stuff from big farmasutical companies, outside of the basic MMR shots. There are incentives to promote other shots. This is well documented.
My pharmacy doesn’t even make enough per RX (on average) to paybfor the bottle we put it in, but vaccines are where all of the money is made. Without them, we’d close.
Allowing them to get sick. And, if pediatricians were solely driven by profit motives, this is the path they would take. Treating sick children is significantly more profitable than merely giving them a vaccine.
The cost of treating measles, for example, runs to tens of thousands of dollars. It was over $32k in this review: Estimating the impact: How much does a measles outbreak cost? But an MMR vaccine costs about $26 per dose. That means that the profit from treating measles is 1,231 times the profit from vaccinating against measles.
Likewise, a diphtheria vaccine costs about $25, but the treatment of diphtheria runs from thousands to tens of thousands of dollars.
Each of these diseases have the potential to allow the funeral industry to profit in addition to the medical industry. When a kid dies from a vaccine-protectable disease, a funeral is typically several thousand dollars.
With all of the profit to be made from refusing to vaccinate children, it's puzzling why pediatricians would choose the least profitable route of vaccinating kids. That is, it's only puzzling if one believes that the only motivation for pediatricians is profit, rather than saving lives.
Before the modern age of vaccinating children, most kids died before the age of five. Those who spread antivax propaganda don't care about the well-being of children. They want to return to the days of high child mortality. No, thanks.
After Covid, I realized that doctors can be as greedy as bank robbers.
RCK Jr is kicking ass!!
DOJ silent on this issue since the Bush years