Hooray for Vaccines!

[celticfan]

http://www.healthpolicyreview.org/da...o-decades.html

CDC: Vaccines prevented 730k premature deaths, saved U.S. $1.7 trillion over past two decades


New analysis from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found that vaccines given to American children between 1994 and 2013 will prevent more than 730,000 premature deaths and yield nearly $1.7 trillion in health cost savings (Source: “CDC: Vaccines given over 20 years prevented 731,700 premature deaths,” Los Angeles Times, April 24, 2014).


Researchers decided to examine the costs and benefits of vaccinations of the federal Vaccines for Children (VFC) program two decades after it was implemented in 1994. The program helps make sure that kids don’t miss recommended vaccines due to an inability to pay.


According to the CDC report, over the entire lifetimes of the 78.6 million U.S. babies born in the first two decades of VFC, routine childhood vaccines will prevent an estimated 731,700 premature deaths, 21 million hospitalizations and 322 million illnesses. That works out to an average of 4.1 fewer illnesses per child and 0.27 fewer hospitalizations per child. (The researchers did not include vaccines for hepa is A, seasonal flu or adolescent vaccines in their calculations.)

[Trainwreck2100]

Dude signs up almost 2 years ago. That's some long con. Spam right there

[sook]

Dude signs up almost 2 years ago. That's some long con. Spam right there

True that

[TDMVPDPOY]

how do you budget u saving costs, when the people cant afford to go get the vaccines?

its not like the vaccines are free

[The Reckoning]

it's not that they can't afford it, all these organic parents think that not vaccinating their kids and rubbing dirt on them will strengthen their immune system.

[pgardn]

it's not that they can't afford it, all these organic parents think that not vaccinating their kids and rubbing dirt on them will strengthen their immune system.

Take herbal parents to the closest polio outbreak with their kids and free them from herd immunity.
Their crippled offspring will thank them later in the nursing home.

[Shastafarian]

How many people did the morphine vaccine save? SA210 might be able to help with that answer.

[Drachen]

how do you budget u saving costs, when the people cant afford to go get the vaccines?

its not like the vaccines are free

They are free for those who really can't afford it.

[Blake]

Dude signs up almost 2 years ago. That's some long con. Spam right there

That they remembered they have this account at all after that time is impressive