Vaccination mediatic blitz

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padib said:

curl-6 said:

Here's the funny part though; the pharmaceutical companies would actually make more money if nobody vaccinated; it's a lot more profitable to treat a chronically ill population than to just immunize everyone. Unfortunately for them, the genie's out of the bottle, so if they don't make and sell the vaccines, someone else will, and they still wouldn't get to profit off a society crippled by endemic illness.

With the risk of talking grim, wouldn't selling medicine to less people (after deaths) lead to less sales?

Less customers overall, yes. But instead of just getting to immunise each customer, which is quite cheap, you'd get to sell them antibiotics, anti-virals, and some medications in perpetuity.