Mostly true, the truth is there have been vaccines for RSV most of been ineffective or even dangerous but we have given them to high-risk patients from time to time. I remember this during my pediatric residency in the 90s when we would occasionally bring out the old vaccine in certain premature infants.There is not a vax for RSV.
There is a treatment for it. I had a client that was a compounding pharmacy that also did RSV shots. RSV is common but is not dangerous for the average kid.
RSV can be deadly for premature babies.
Low income families are at the most risk for having premies.
So most families coming to the pharmacy for shots were low income and on Tennessee's version of medicaid known as TennCare.
The pharma was sued for how it calculated its pricing and lost in court. Private insurance that made up about 10% of the clients worked with the pharma to find a legal workaround that kept the price close to the same.
TennCare said it would pay $10 for a shot that the Pharma was getting $100 previously.
This was a major hit to its revenue and they closed 8 months later.
Not sure about now but at the time the only other place to go was Memphis.
There is also a new RSV vaccine which is getting the fast track thanks to Covid.
Moderna's RSV vaccine catches the fast track on heels of Pfizer's leapfrog into the queue
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