Vaccine marketing paid by taxpayers alone.
"The federal government is spending nearly $2 billion to encourage vaccine uptake. That’s more than double Coca-Cola’s U.S. marketing budget."
https://time.com/6053504/vaccination-rate-marketing/Welcome to corporate media.
Herd immunity for a respiratory virus is achieved naturally (without a vaccine), in about a year and a half. The starting point with COVID19 was that about a third of the population was immune before it started, since some strains of the common cold are close enough to provide said immunity.
