How much does a diabetes vaccination cost?

At present, there is no vaccine in the world that has been officially approved for sale and can be used for the general population to prevent diabetes. Naturally, there is no official price. Any "diabetes vaccine" sold with a clearly marked price on the market is basically an IQ tax that is falsely advertised.

I'm not being alarmist when I say this. Last week, I met a 62-year-old Aunt Zhang in the outpatient clinic. She came to consult with a brochure printed with the "Magic Shot to Prevent Sugar". She said that the health promotion staff in the community sold a diabetes prevention vaccine for 3,980 yuan per shot. Three injections will prevent diabetes for 20 years. I looked over the brochure over and over for a long time, but I couldn't even find an approval number from the Food and Drug Administration. It was obviously a trick specially designed to deceive middle-aged and elderly people.

In fact, the research on diabetes-related vaccines has indeed been advancing. Whether it is an immunomodulatory vaccine for type 1 diabetes or a pathogenic target vaccine for type 2 diabetes, they are still in the clinical trial stage. Not only do the subjects participating in the trials do not have to spend money to get the vaccine, some projects will also provide certain transportation and nutritional subsidies. It is impossible to sell them to the outside world.

Many people tend to regard the commonly used GLP-1 injections as diabetes prevention shots. In fact, the only approved indications for this type of drug are type 2 diabetes treatment and obesity weight loss. Indeed, there are research data showing that it can reduce the risk of diabetes in high-risk groups, but it is not prevention at all. Sexual vaccines do not have the effect of "preventing diabetes" at all. They are prescription drugs that must be evaluated by a doctor before they can be prescribed. The price of a single injection of this type of domestically produced injection after centralized procurement ranges from 100 to 300 yuan, and the imported price is slightly higher, but we must first understand that this is really not a vaccination.

When I participated in an industry exchange meeting before, I also talked about what the price would be if a diabetes preventive vaccine was launched in the future. A teacher of health economics said that if the protection rate of the vaccine is only about 30%, it would be too expensive to set the price. It would be much more cost-effective for everyone to spend more time adjusting their diet and exercising more.； Some friends who are engaged in vaccine research and development believe that if the risk of disease among high-risk groups can be cut in half, even if a single injection is sold for less than 1,000, some people will be willing to pay. After all, it is really not easy to maintain a healthy lifestyle for a long time through self-discipline.

Anyway, judging from the current situation, there is really no point in worrying about the price of diabetes vaccination. If you are a high-risk group whose parents have diabetes, your BMI is over 28, and you usually like to drink milk tea and stay up late, it is better to arrange a brisk walk for half an hour three times a week to control your weight within a reasonable range. This is the most reliable "free vaccination" at the moment.