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• Only a 20% reduction in drug-resistant infections would save $3.2 – $5.2 billion each year

  A 20% reduction in drug-resistant infections would save between 5.7 and 11.3 million additional hospital days and between $3.2 and $5.2 billion in healthcare costs, each year.  [ Get More Details ]

• Negative value of antibiotics to drug companies

  The value of an antibiotic to a drug company is negative $50 million- compared to the positive value of $1 billion for a new musculoskeletal drug.  [ Get More Details ]

• Use of shingles vaccine could save $82 to $103 million

  Use of the shingles vaccine in immunocompetent adults ages 60 and older could save between $82 and $103 million in healthcare costs associated with the diagnosis and treatment of shingles,…  [ Get More Details ]

• Vaccines save lives and money

  Between 2001 and 2010, vaccine use prevented an estimated 170,000 severe pneumococcal infections and 10,000 deaths, and saved an estimated $310 million in direct medical costs each year.  [ Get More Details ]

• Polio vaccination prevented 5 million cases of paralysis since 1988

  Vaccination for polio reduced the number of worldwide cases from more than 300,000 per year in the 1980s to only 2,000 in 2002—also preventing an estimated 5 million cases of…  [ Get More Details ]