As the US hits a 33-year high in measles infections, there is now a "race" to find a treatment for the disease.
One pharma company "is banking on a continuing decline in vaccination rates to fuel a need for measles treatments—and in turn, more investor interest"
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The measles vaccine was so effective the disease was considered eliminated in the U.S., but a resurgence of outbreaks is spurring a need for drugs.
Rather than administer the MMR vaccine, which has been proven safe and effective over decades, let's take a flyer on some new treatments that may not work, may have unforeseen side effects, and are likely to be far more expensive.
First you create a need then fill it Motherfucker Let’s experiment on new vaccines by infecting CEOs
Why isn't the news media talking about this anymore???
There;s a brilliant new SF novella, Dengue Boy by Michael Nieva, about a future where the latest stock exchange fashion is gambling on firms creating/enabling diseases in order to profit from the treatments. But truth is always stranger..
Don’t need a treatment if YOU’D GET FUCKING VACCINATED!!!
anti-vaxxers really getting played
The obscenity of “Big Pharma”
Life is too short as it is without disease-lovers. Here:
Wow this is so fucked up 🤦♀️🤦♀️ For a disease that had basically been eradicated!
Same thing that happened with Covid! People refusing the vaccine, then being prescribed 25 different medications by antivax Drs, to fight the various symptoms.
It's a race to find ways to filter the sewage out of the soup; we no longer prevent sewage from going in!!
snake oil salesmen
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Bringing back previously cured diseases for corporate profit was always the end game in a for profit health care system.
Children will die.
The first measles vaccines were introduced in the United States in 1963.
Capitalism is a death cult
Does ivermectin not work?
Wait, I thought some idiot claimed vaccines caused measles. This is like the opposite of that.
It’s called a vaccine you F U C K F A C E S
Credit to Oprah for promoting Jenny McCarthy and praising her for “living her truth.”
They're not listening to people about vaccines, what makes people think they're going to listen about medical treatments?
Is it ivermectin
Not...prevention, then?
Yeah, I hate everyone involved in this. I hope we all enjoy our fun little "measles cream" while real doctors get jobs in Europe.
Necrocapitalism.
That's the word you're looking for.
It's necrocapitalism.
If only there were some way to reduce the spread of measles infections…
Money-worshippers practicing child sacrifice, essentially.
What a waste of resources. The vaccine is safe and effective plus, it's cheaper to prevent an infection than treating it.
Remember, there is no money in cures, only in treatment.
Cool cool cool. Nothing to see here. Move along.
we are literally reinventing the wheel
JFC
Fucking perverse and disgusting, the solution is vaccines you disaster capitalism fools.
US in race to find a treatment for measles because the powers that be don't want people to use the proven treatment for measles.
Wonderful
"In America, we don’t like being told what to do ...".
Because we're a nation of idiots. 🙄
This is what happens when conspiranoia becomes the norm among the poorly educated...! 😒
Evil scum:
I mean ..we have a treatment. It’s called the vaccine. Works great.
I feel this incessant need to maximize profit to the exclusion of all else is going to be the literal death of the human race.
Isn’t there an effective vaccine? 🙄
ha ha in the movies we catch and execute villians
Meanwhile, the rest of the world continues immunizing their children ….
Not sure I have ever seen capitalism summarized so succinctly.
One pharma company "is banking on a continuing decline in vaccination rates to fuel a need for measles treatments—and in turn, more investor interest"
Wait, so drug companies think anti vaxxers are going to take drugs from drug companies when they wouldn't take a vaccine from a drug company?
"more investor interest" there it is. Let's break something that's working so we can make more money.
It's always about the money.
Vaccination vaccination vaccination
gross. such a dumb, dumb timeline
How did one of smartest countries wind up in the stupidest time line in the universe
An iron lung based investment strategy seems sound.
We live in the stupidest timeline with the stupidest people bsky.app/profile/bgru...
The measles vaccine was so effective the disease was considered eliminated in the U.S., but a resurgence of outbreaks is spurring a need for drugs.
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Ironically(?), RFK Jr turns out to be in the pocket of Big Pharma.
We need an army of Luigis to handle this.
you don't make money off of solutions. you make money off of problems. lo and behold what capitalists are up to.
One pharma company "is banking on a continuing decline in vaccination rates to fuel a need for measles treatments—and in turn, more investor interest"
Corporations are sociopaths.
I'm disgusted
there's some money to be made here, no doubt!
This was so avoidable. Vaccine has been available for decades, making a treatment unnecessary.
Sicko stuff
Fucking dumbasses are going to reject a vaccines that has shown effective for 50 years because some grifter on the internet told them so but then rush to take a treatment that is being pushed through an HHS led by the same grifting idiots...why I am a misanthrope part 6,364.
Thank you for the gift link.
Monoclonal antibodies? Does that mean that they’re going to give me mono, clone me, and attack my body? And notice how the name doesn’t give you any clues to how they’ll put a microchip in your brain. The absence of clues is proof! See? You can’t fool me. We The People do our own research.
Reminder that the measles vaccine was the most successful in history and was considered to have entirely eliminated infections until the funded anti-vax movement was fueled by RFK Jr & others to concentrate capital with more pandemics.
The measles vaccine was so effective the disease was considered eliminated in the U.S., but a resurgence of outbreaks is spurring a need for drugs.
We are living in the stupidest of times. All I can think of is this guy.
Yet they cut out research into treatments for Alzheimer's. www.sciencefriday.com/segments/lit...
A pox on Saravir Biopharma. This ghoulish take is insane.
Just wait until they learn about SSPE. That could be a big money maker
The stupidity of parents not vaccinating their children is heartbreaking.
Of fvcking course. mRNA vaccines cut into their profits, so of course RFK Jr killing people is ok with them. On the other hand, they are pulling back on developing new drugs because they & the universities they partner with can no longer count on grant funding.
The whole anti Vax movement started because a corrupt doctor Andrew Wakefield wanted to sell individual vaccines instead of the MMR jab. He was struck off in the UK but went to the US to spread his deadly lies.
These ghouls are worse than Scrooge.
Rewrite science? The vaccine already exists. This is real waste, fraud and abuse!
The anti vax crowd are surely gonna be big mad when they see how pharma is gonna unnecessarily profit off this
Vaccination saves lives
GDit let them be - and die. If they don't want to participate in society they can leave it.
Devo invented the term de-evolution over 50 years ago as a response to where they saw humans going. Fucking visionaries.
Doesn't sound like big pharma is behind the maga and antivax movement at all, right?
'All of this for fear of autism. F@$& society that is so inhospitable to those that are different. The blind fear of weirdness that drove my ggrandfather to lobotomize my guncle. That drove my brother to take his own life after 27 years of being hated on. 'The near constant meanness my son faces...
Lol, dystopia
Okay, NOW I see why all the vaccine hate.
The corporations are gaming with our lives. A robust public health vaccine programme is vilified with government approved propaganda. Then turn around and offer a pay to play treatment. We need a new word to describe this type of fuckery.
This is where Pharma makes money most of its money not from vaccines. Good job MAGA making big pharma rich again.
What the actual F is happening here?? The lack of education and truth in this country are having detrimental results!
If you can’t buy the treatment in a Tractor Supply the people refusing the vaccine won’t be interested.
A lot more money in treatment than in prevention. Truly, a preventable pandemic is a triumph of capitalism!
Because of Trump/RFK Jr., we now have to find a cure for a deadly disease that we had effectively eradicated. And the situation is going to get much, much worse.
The USA is broken on so many levels 😢
And idiots voted because they thought RFK Jr. was anti big pharma, when in fact he just wanted his cut.
If people would just ask themselves, "who is this good for?" It would solve a lot of this ridiculousness
They destroy US-All so they could consume US-All
Oligarchy is the perversion, people are the diet.
New RFK, Jr. Directive. Drs. Are not to scub, or sterilize surgical equipment. Waste of time and resources. We can operate on more people, more quickly. Saving many more lives. Funding will go to fight post-op infections. Win. Win.
The cynical amongst us would say not using the totally proven MMR vaccine in favour of a new one is a massive money generating exercise for a pharma company?.........everyone's a cynic. 🙄🙄
They're going to pocket the profits and just rebrand MMR, aren't they?
Is RFK Jr. one of those interested investors?
We DO NOT NEED a measles treatment because we have a fucking VACCINE.
Fuck all these right wing shit for brains who are just doing every stupid thing to harm the country.
Creating the $$$ market for treating preventable diseases. Crony capitalism at its finest.
That's disgusting.
What a bunch of morons.
If ever there was a use case for new age essential oils, this is it.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure
I thought everybody knew that
Ridiculous
Next up, pharma joining with junk food companies for diabetes treatment, increased alcohol use to spur interest in liver disease treatment.
Oh JC
So... Anti-vaxxers don't trust pharma companies so they don't take vaccines which in turn makes numbers spike requiring pharma companies to develop treatments which they'll then need to take because they didn't take the vaccine because they didn't trust pharma companies....
These people are despicable! Why is it always about money? 🤮
Suffer the little children.
Late-stage capitalism. No money in having cured something, so let’s try banning / undermining the cure and killing people instead!
JFC
Pharma prefers treatments over cures bc healthy people don't generate revenue. Come on people get your kids vaccinated.
Finding a way to profit from the anti-vaccine hysteria. Grim.
Future profit projections for polio treatments are also very rosy...
Yes, yes… let’s spend the money to treat something we already know how to…prevent. Seems like a sound strategy. Jesus Christ.
And there it is. It’s always about rich folks making more money.
All for profit - vaccination is a one time treatment, drugs are a continuous source of revenue. So, of course, don't vaccinate your children. Just keep paying, month after month, as a 'treatment' for the disease.
Crazy.
This is the same as they don't want to cure cancer patients, they want to be able to treat them for years because it's more profitable.
Sick Americans are a pharma gold mine and they are going to fight tooth and nail to keep it that way.
Turns out anti-vaxxing was the Big Pharma conspiracy all along. (This is just a joke. DO NOT TAKE IT ANY FURTHER. But also... Get vaccinated.)
I am at the point I actually hate Republican and what they are doing to this nation. This is not a disagreement on tax rates, this is one party destroying our freedom and health care and actually assuring more of us DIE due to their selfishness, racism and overall ignorance.
I am, as I type, reviewing the annual estimates of global mortality due to measles. 3-400 children under 5 still die of this virus every day. Those are Sarah McLachlan kind of numbers.
It's not just about kids getting a rash! One thing I don't hear anyone talking about is the fact that we in the US have a cohort of young girls unvaccinated for measles who will soon become unvaccinated women of childbearing age. Few people seem to be aware...
Man, what?
The money is in the treatment, not the cure.
Each of four US Senators who are MDs (Marshall, Paul, Barrasso, and Cassidy) who voted to appoint RFK should lose their licenses and resign in disgrace.
Big Pharma hates a cure.
So they told everyone vaccines don’t work so people stop getting vaccines until they are so desperate they are willing to try a vaccine so Big Pharma can “create” something we already have but convinced people they can’t trust. There, I fixed it.
this is the big pharma they claim they're trying to save us from. jfc.
Maybe they'll try leeches...
This is where we find big insurance on our side.
Insurance can pay for a vaccine or pay for a ridiculously expensive treatment. Unless they remove approval for vaccines, this is the cheapest option for insurance companies.
It’s the battle of the bigs.
it’s vaccines. but “big pharma” will find treatments, ironically. 🤦🏽♀️
This number of cases not good with schools about to resume. I'm not aware that RFK Jr. has even spoken about it recently.
The “treatment” is the proven vaccine.
Guillotine.
It’s natural selection…. If you are too stupid to vaccinate yourself and your kids, you all may die or have lifelong issues from having the measles. Survival of the fittest.
Their motto, " Win or lose, there's money in it for us."
We really are stupiding ourselves to death, aren’t we.
Oh look, supposedly anti-big pharma people like RFK Jr are actually playing right into the hands of big corporations. Who could have fucking guessed.
Unfortunately we’ve raced right on by the treatment.
Ive been wondering how long it would take people to figure this out. Being anti-vax means being pro-sickness. And sickness makes pharma and hospitals money
Follow the fucking money. As usual.
We know the cure already.
Ghouls.
Is it ok to hope every investor who wants to profit of others getting measles, catches measles themselves, and dies?
It’s called “pre-emptive prevention”
This country is so embarrassingly stupid. Is anyone proud to be an American right now?
U.S. Healthcare has been moving to the "subscription" model for almost 10 years.
Do not cure or prevent.
Keep patients sick, needing to continue paying for appointments, treatments, drugs, and etc.
If you look, you will see this.
LMAO The U.S. is such a fucking dumb country.
insane!
Dark mirror this
What is wrong with you ??? We have vaccines that’s is the cure, there isn’t another option
FAFO. Don't care if you want to die or get sick from a preventable disease that's your own business.
Idiots and greedy ghouls will Kill us all.
The village idiot and his minions know no bounds eh. Talk about destroying a win.
Well then darwin will work his wonders. I think they want mass caualty since people like Bill Gates say the world is overpopulated. It is a way to depopulate and bring the world into balance.
This is ghoulish
Capitalistic Greed. Make more people sick by removing cures, because treatments are more profitable?
Why "treat it" if there's a perfectly good way to "prevent it"?
Lolololol
Criminoso isso!
WE ALREADY ENDED MEASLES.
Stupidity brought them back.
Capitalism will keep them here.
Maybe some natural selection going on.
“Ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” is “woke math “according to the fucking MAHA Morons
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There already is a treatment. It's called dying young. Roll the dice for your child.
Measles wipes out immunity. Just get vaccinated.
Why does the US seem to have a greater concentration of total idjits than any other country on earth
Measles is dangerous! The MMR vaccine PREVENTS Measles, it doesn't TREAT Measles.
All info from the CDC website:
Jesus Christ, America. What are you doing?
Gee if only we had a way to address measles whatever could it beeeeeee......
If only we had a vaccine for the measles. What a stupid time to be alive.
Soon a sales push for invermectin? Now in tablets and a cream.....
How much stock does RFK jr. Have in pharmaceutical companies?
FFS, we live in the stupidest timeline.
This is one reason Trump & his fossil fuel donors want to defund research and control universities. Increased autism is associated with increased air pollution exposure during pregnancy & early babyhood:
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The number of children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) has rapidly increased globally. Genetic and environmental factors both contribute to the development of ASD. Several studies showed...
HHS is purposely making people sick by lying about vaccination. It is malpractice & crimes against humanity. It started in Louisiana as soon as they anticipatrd rfk. LA became epicenter of flu last season, which spread from there for the worst season since flu vaccines became widespread.
An NPR investigation found Louisiana health officials told staff to stop promoting vaccines for COVID, flu and mpox, holding flu shot events or otherwise encouraging the public to get those vaccines.
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Banking on disease and death to make a profit. Sounds about typical.
Measles can cause blindness, encephalitis, and other conditions that can show up years after exposure. The vaccine prevents all of them.
Oh joy. More junk treatments to suck more money out of people
It should go without saying that this is completely insane.
So, the sicker we get, the more money big pharma makes.
goddamn it we HAVE a measles treatment! It's the fucking vaccine!
