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.

cricket97@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• theboomr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  2 things can be true at the same time. In this case the science is good and accurate, and since we live in a capitalist hellscape, corporations will take advantage of the science at every opportunity.

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  • cricket97@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Do you think there is the financial incentive could perhaps skew the “science” in one direction?

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