A recent study from the Harvard School of Public Health looked at the economic impact of the first 50 years of polio immunization, from 1955 to 2005. They found that the US has benefited from the polio vaccine, with a net savings of over 180 billion dollars.
The researchers, Professor Thompson and Dr. Radboud Duintjer Tebbens, a research associate at HSPH, estimated the costs and the effectiveness of historical polio vaccination strategies. They found that the U.S. invested over $35 billion between 1955 and 2005 and will continue to invest billions into the future to pay for polio vaccination. They estimated that these historical and future investments translate into over 1.7 billion vaccinations that prevent approximately 1.1 million cases of paralytic polio and over 160,000 deaths, thus saving Americans hundreds of billions of dollars in treatment costs.http://tinyurl.com/ynu3qt
One positive impact of this study is that it illustrates the huge economic savings that can come from such a successful public health initiative. Score one for biomedical research!
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If only there had been huge pharmaceutical giants back in the 50s. Just think of all the money they could have made treating polio as opposed to curing it.
Oh, the humanities!
Eradicating Poliomyelitis has been the mission of the Rotary Club forever.
It appeared that they had actually succeeded until just a couple of years ago when it reared its ugly head in India.
I think it was the Rotarians. It may have been the Unitarians.
Never Mind.
Buy fur now;
T2
Meaning what? That all medical research should be accomplished with private funds?
One positive impact of this study is that it illustrates the huge economic savings that can come from such a successful public health initiative. Score one for biomedical research!
SG: Ignoring for the moment fa(R)me(R)'s John's investment in hating anything done publicly - based on the 'belief' that a group acting for personal gain provides better public gain than a group acting for directly for public gain - I have made a personal 'contribution' to the 'war on polio'.
I am one of the few individuals who didn't have polio but was injected with a sufficiently viable virus to contract it.
Immunization was a process that was a great benefit to us all, at the time. However, it was clear even then that a few would be infected to benefit our community as a whole. It is a 'contribution' I continue to make, in the form of Post Polio Syndrome.
So even with that personal cost, my belief is still that we all benefit from collectively motivated actions, as opposed to privately motivated actions where the primacy of personal gain 'renders' community benefit, mostly collateral. In fact, you might begin to imagine just how VILE I find Neocon 'ideology', which requires huge incentives, most taken from the community, in order to motivate an economic elite so obese from gorging on excess, they won't even put the effort forward for personal gain anymore, without them ... all the while self-righteously lecturing 'US' on survival of the 'fittest'.
Anyway Doc, have been enjoying your blog of late.
By the by, what is your employment 'life' like - feel free to email me if you prefer discussing such things there ...
Snerd
Thanks, Snerd!
I've sent you an e-mail with an update on my situation.
I hope that the post-polio symptoms are not causing you too much distress.
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