Depends on what else is in EvilPharmaCorp’s portfolio. Vaccines are generally cheap, but broadly applied so can be profitable. Treatments for disease are often CRAZY expensive, but you sell less of them. There is a network relationship, though—if you can sell much less of the vaccine, you can increase the disease more than linearly.
So truly evil pharma would try to suppress immunization rather than pushing it.
There are enough different pharma companies that vigorously compete with each other. One company that has a patented treatment for disease X that makes a lot of money might not want to develop a vaccine to cure it but that doesn’t mean that developing a vaccine isn’t interesting for other companies.
Evil pharma-corps don’t care about being evil but care about making money. I don’t see why vaccine that can be sold Westerns are bad on that front.
Depends on what else is in EvilPharmaCorp’s portfolio. Vaccines are generally cheap, but broadly applied so can be profitable. Treatments for disease are often CRAZY expensive, but you sell less of them. There is a network relationship, though—if you can sell much less of the vaccine, you can increase the disease more than linearly.
So truly evil pharma would try to suppress immunization rather than pushing it.
There are enough different pharma companies that vigorously compete with each other. One company that has a patented treatment for disease X that makes a lot of money might not want to develop a vaccine to cure it but that doesn’t mean that developing a vaccine isn’t interesting for other companies.