Because the unvaccinated are much more profitable.





A recent analysis estimated that 342,000 unvaccinated people were hospitalized with COVID-19 in the USA over a 3-month period this summer, and each hospitalization costs about $20,000. Though the analysis "made assumptions that result in a conservative estimate of costs attributable to preventable, unvaccinated hospitalizations", it concluded that "total preventable costs for those three months now stand at an estimated $5.7 billion". While this analysis did not specify how much money was spent on pharmaceutical agents, clearly these costs make up a substantial part of any hospital bill. As any doctor knows, patients hospitalized with COVID-19 are treated with a cocktail of pain medications, steroids, antibiotics, sedatives, and anti-viral agents. While some of these medications are cheap, others can be quite expensive. Remdesivir, for example, costs over $3,100 per treatment course. Given how hospitals seek to maximize profit, even a single Tylenol pill can cost $15.

In contrast, the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine costs $19.50 per dose, while the Moderna vaccine costs $15 per dose. Medicare also pays about $40 for administering the vaccine. As such, vaccinating these 342,000 individuals with two mRNA doses would have cost around $41 million, though only about $13.5 million of this would have gone to pharmaceutical companies. Even if every unvaccinated patient hospitalized with COVID-19 was treated with just nine $15 Tylenol pills, the vaccines would save money. Overall, the cost of a COVID-19 hospitalization is 150 times more expensive than vaccination.

Notably, the vaccines are very effective at keeping people alive and out of the hospital, and we should all be grateful to everyone involved in their development.

http://sciencebasedmedicine.or...P3gJ2PjrxtCX58l6eHb6DI