The agenda of anti-vaccination activists may be causing a drag on the economy, says Dr. Anthony Fauci, director for the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
"When people get sick, they lose work, they lose their finances from work, [and] they have hospital costs," he says.VIDEOThe agenda of anti-vaccination activists — or so-called anti-vaxxers — may be causing a drag on the U.S. economy as the recent measles outbreak causes people to stay out of work and seek medical care, the director for the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said Monday.
"If you wind up getting more infections and diseases that were vaccine-preventable, those are entirely avoidable burdens on the economy," Dr. Anthony Fauci said in a "" interview. "When people get sick, they lose work, they lose their finances from work, [and] they have hospital costs." The NIAID is part of the National Institutes of Health, an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
There's no official data yet on how this year's measles outbreak — now the worst in the U.S. since the disease was declared eradicated in 2000 — may impact the economy in the near term.a person hospitalized with measles can run up a hospital bill between $4,032 and $46,060. Additionally, a University of North Carolina study showed vaccine-preventable diseases among adults cost the economy nearly $9 billion in 2015, with unvaccinated individuals responsible for 80% of those costs. The study was funded by
Where did the measles come from? Did they spontaneously develop measles or was it brought in from legal or illegal immigrants?
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