The following news item is quite interesting (interesting use of emotive images too - you can't get away from behavioural psychology). There is always the question of opportunity costs, and I don't know how effective this vaccine is. Also, the pharmaceutical industry is probably trying to charge prices that are far too high, as usual. But for consistency in society's values, cost effectiveness analysis leaves a lot to be desired, doesn't it (despite it's myriad methodological problems that not too many people what to pay attention to)? It could be the case that using this vaccine is more cost effective than, say, saving someone who has got stuck up the side of the mountain. So, for consistency, the next time a little girl gets stuck down a well, or some miners get trapped, we should leave them there. But what would that say about us as a society?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-23422973
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