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[RandySF]

Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar refused to promise a coronavirus vaccine will be affordable, The Verge reports.

Said Azar: “We would want to ensure that we work to make it affordable, but we can’t control that price, because we need the private sector to invest… Price controls won’t get us there.”



https://politicalwire.com/2020/02/27/azar-wont-promise-affordable-coronavirus-vaccine/

[hlthe2b]

1. You cannot control infectious outbreaks with major person-to-person spread without vaccinating ALL

at risk. That this a'hole claims to be a physician is abysmal. He knows NOTHING except how to line his pockets from Big PharmaRX.

That said, the funding Congress will allocate will undoubtedly include funding for mass vaccination when available. That has been the case and that is CDC's purview in emerging infections/pandemic response for many many decades. Most recently with a response to H5N1 influenza, response to bioterrorism exposures, and related to that, the national smallpox vaccination program for at-risk workers after 911.

R's may think they can charge and profit for such interventions, but the sane among us will prevail. One can not control a mass infection with significant person-to-person transmission without vaccinating all at risk. No more than those insane racists can prevail by suggesting not vaccinating immigrant children for routine vaccine-preventable diseases.

[Miguelito Loveless]

4. Don't bet on it

That said, the funding Congress will allocate will undoubtedly include funding for mass vaccination when available. That has been the case and that is CDC's purview in emerging infections/pandemic response for many many decades.

Funding might be allocated, but Moscow Mitch has final say, as does Trump, who will veto bills that do not insure BigPharma gets its pay day.

[hlthe2b]

5. The public WILL rise up when their very lives are at risk & Mitch can't commit

political suicide. Even your evil namesake (lol) could not get by with that--with or without James West.

[Miguelito Loveless]

6. My Evil Namesake retired

from Mad Science because there was know way he would compete with today's villains in the GOP. He has standards.

About 1/3 of the country is quite prepared to commit suicide if their Orange Master asks it. Mike Pence is a religiously insane cultist who thinks the end of the world means it Jesus Time, and welcomes it.

[Miguelito Loveless]

2. Translation:

"A lot of you will be dead by the time we figure out how to profit from this, and when we do, you WILL pay 'till you bleed for the vaccine."

[bullwinkle428]

3. Because "ZOMG...SOSHULIZED MEDICINE!!!1!1!"

[Me.]

7. Then What Is The Point