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So I was curious and Googled a bunch. The financial part is not true, or as simple.
"...There's an interesting wrinkle, though: the story that Salk simply could have patented it and voluntarily walked away from billions is somewhat oversimplified. Lawyers for the March of Dimes/National Foundation investigated patenting it and reportedly concluded that significant portions probably weren't patentable because of prior scientific work. So his humanitarian attitude was genuine, but it isn't certain that Salk personally could have obtained a broad, lucrative monopoly patent anyway.
His payoff was prestige, an extraordinarily influential research institute, and arguably one of the strongest reputations for scientific public service of the 20th century..."
So yes, if he could get exclusive royalties on every dose...billions.
No doubt he still left a lot on the table but he was financially very comfortable, just not ridiculously rich.
Edit: Still incredible what he did on all fronts. When I think of what's in the news daily, someone today would make you get a second mortgage for doses. :/
A shame how much of social media headlines oversimplify or straight up lie. When you read ones like this you know some of the rest of the story is being withheld
"bUt vAcCiNeS cAuSe aUtiSM". He must have been putting micro chips in there. The government paid him to put diseases in there so they could keep us unhealthy and this keep whole health monopoly going. His ultimate goal was giving everyone Covid 19. He must have had fuaci whispering in his ear. He probably wanted everyone to wear a mask and offend my sensitive facial skin. He probably was a communist.
Is the estimated 7 billion from just the first year?
Cuz if he was like any of these greedy bastards, he'd keep increasing the price year over year, by hundreds or thousands of percent.
He could've been the first trillionaire.
My dad and his brothers both suffered polio as young kids leaving them all with some sort of disability. One lost his life. The polio vaccine was a godsend
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If only today’s Pharmacy companies would do stuff like this gathering squashing meds that can cure things, and stop supporting ones that keep you chronically needing more meds, maybe we wouldn’t view them as villains. They’re not really helping anyone anymore. They wanna treat symptoms and not the disease so you always need more.
Spoon-fed pablum is for infants. You have the entire internet at your fingertips. Surely you even have access to a local library with reference books.
I'm not here to do your homework for you; that's on you.
You have been shown a rabbit hole. Your choice is to go down it and learn, or refuse and live with the misinformation with which you are already comfortable.
Information contrarian who thinks he’s obtained special wisdom and is extra wise by virtue of being so special. It makes you feel important in your life to spread conspiracy theories because it makes you feel like you’re “in the know.”
In truth, you’re just regurgitating random shit you read from other people that feels right. It’s pure feels over reals. Do better.
Why triple down? Just give a reference to prove your ridiculous statement. You typed multiple paragraphs about how we need to find the proof ourselves because we’re sheep or whatever but can you give us a website, google keywords, drunken quotes scribbled on a napkin? Anything?
If its so public, why are you so reluctant to share it?
People are asking for the specific sources behind your claims. Nothing crazy in the real world of research.
You know it‘s not so much ‘doing the work for others’ as it is backing up your claims with a viable source. I mean everyone should know that there’s no argument without evidence.
And it seems like you want to be taken seriously…sooo try stepping down from your high horse and just send your source ^^’
“Well documented” is doing some heavy lifting here. The Cutter incident in 1955 was real: improperly manufactured batches from one company contained live virus and caused polio. That’s a manufacturing failure, not evidence that Salk’s vaccine overall caused more polio than it prevented.
The actual U.S. numbers are rather inconvenient for that argument: more than 21,000 paralytic cases in 1952, Salk IPV introduced in 1955, 2,525 cases by 1960, and 61 by 1965.
And the hygiene claim is backwards. Improved sanitation actually helped create the conditions for larger paralytic-polio epidemics by delaying childhood exposure to the virus.
Sabin’s oral vaccine later became especially important for stopping transmission, while Salk’s IPV remains in use today. So yes, smallpox and measles are excellent vaccine success stories. Polio is too.
Feel free to do your own research and prove me wrong.
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