Comment on 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.

happyhippo@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• UnspecificGravity@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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.

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• blue_zephyr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  As if they’ll lower the price once they’ve recouped the R&D costs ten times over.

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• BassTurd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Who paid for the R&D?

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  • pyldriver@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That would be the us government soooo… The citizens of the usa

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  • IHaveTwoCows@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Taxpayers, through the university system

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