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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't have a newborn currently, but when DS was born at 32 weeks, he received a vaccine for RSV for preemies.

I'm not sure why it's not given out to all newborns, maybe you can ask your pediatrician.

Also, clinical studies have just shown that a new vaccine given to pregnant mothers protects their newborns against RSV. It's not available right now, but it's something to follow.

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It's 10k and only available to premies. [/quote]

This is one of the things I hate most about the USA: life-saving meds exist, but the government is too weak to force pharmaceutical companies to lower their prices, like the European Union and other countries do. Same for the life-saving progesterone injection to prevent pre-term labor. Same for insulin.

It's an outrage.

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A friend of mines baby died of RSV in the UK because the NHS thought the med used to treat it was too expensive to waste on him. [/quote]

Liberal Americans are confused. It's not that you don't have to pay, it's that you [b]can't[/b]. Big difference.

Canada extended drug coverage to kids... at the expense of kicking very expensive cancer drugs off the formulary. So soccer mom's have their pimply 15 year old's doxycyclin covered while very sick kids will die of cancer. [/quote]

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