Lots of articles recently about price increases by companies. Why? Commodity prices are soaring. Here are a few commodity prices over the last 4 years.
Many commodity prices are up 50% already this year. Consumer price increases are next.
Cost of the J&J ‘Halt’
On April 14th, the CDC suggested halting the J&J vaccine due to 6 reported blood clots. This was a 1/100,000 risk. The J&J vaccine has been un-halted, but the impacted of that announcement continues to haunt the U.S.
Below is the number of vaccinations the U.S. is giving per day. The red line is April 14th.
The fall off afterwards has been steady and step.
While I of course fell terrible for the people affected, the impact on vaccines will likely be far costlier in terms of public health.