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Pfizer says it will price Covid treatment Paxlovid at nearly $1,400 for a five-day course, which researchers estimate only costs Pfizer $13 to produce.
That's a 10,000%+ markup. Shameful.
A lot of the research for the mRNA tech that made the vaccine possible was done at Pennsylvania University before they fired the woman doing the research and she moved on to Biontech.
13$ to produce including all the R&D behind it?
I’m not a fan of big pharma, quite the contrary, but I’d be curious to know where this number comes from…
I bet they got a lot of grants and other funding. They aren’t disclosing their costs so you can assume it’s less that you imagine.
Who paid for the R&D?
That would be the us government soooo… The citizens of the usa
The government promised to purchase massive quantities of Pfizer manufactured it to guarantee a market, they didn’t directly fund R&D.
https://www.mainepublic.org/npr-news/2022-02-01/feds-contract-with-pfizer-for-paxlovid-has-some-surprises
A lot of the research for the mRNA tech that made the vaccine possible was done at Pennsylvania University before they fired the woman doing the research and she moved on to Biontech.
Paxlovid isn’t the vaccine. It’s a treatment.
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As if they’ll lower the price once they’ve recouped the R&D costs ten times over.