Forget about Ebola. Look what the anti-vaxxers are doing to California

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50. They make money on the vaccines, but make less than caring for the disease

Let's say they make the same profit off one dose of a vaccine, or one dose of a treatment medication. A fairly reasonable assumption for anything that isn't extremely new.

Children get something like one to three doses of a vaccine. Treating the condition that the vaccine prevents would take dozens of doses of medication. So yes, profit motive favors treatment instead of vaccination.

But my point was the same people that insist profit is driving evil companies to push vaccines turn around and ignore profit when discussing their prophets.