Did You Know? Unvaccinated Adults Cost You Money

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Treating U.S. adults who had vaccine-preventable diseases cost almost $9 billion during 2015. Of that, costs associated with treatment of previously unvaccinated adults accounted for $7.1 billion.

Learn more with this chart, from the journal Health Affairs.

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