{"id":43023,"date":"2025-09-28T18:19:55","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T23:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=43023"},"modified":"2025-09-28T18:19:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T23:19:55","slug":"an-eye-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/09\/28\/an-eye-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"An Eye Opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you were wondering whether vaccines benefit society &#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The covid-19 vaccines cost $79 billion to develop and deliver globally, but provided health and economic benefits worth between $5 trillion and $38 trillion globally in the first year alone, based on avoided infections, hospitalisations and deaths. That is a return on investment of between $60 and $475 per dollar invested.<em> [&#8220;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2496200-covid-19-vaccine-benefits-worth-up-to-38-trillion-in-first-year-alone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Covid-19 vaccine benefits worth up to $38 trillion in first year alone<\/a>,&#8221; Michael Le Page, <strong>NewScientist<\/strong> (20 September 2025, paywall)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fascinating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you were wondering whether vaccines benefit society &#8230; The covid-19 vaccines cost $79 billion to develop and deliver globally, but provided health and economic benefits worth between $5 trillion and $38 trillion globally in the first year alone, based on avoided infections, hospitalisations and deaths. That is a \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/09\/28\/an-eye-opener\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43024,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43023\/revisions\/43024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}