i_have_no_enemies@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoPfizer 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.mastodon.worldexternal-linkmessage-square271fedilinkarrow-up12.13Karrow-down153cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.world
arrow-up12.08Karrow-down1external-linkPfizer says it will price Covid treatment Paxlovid at nearly $1,400 for a five-day course, which researchers estimate only costs Pfizer $13 to produce. That's a 10,000%+ markup. Shameful.mastodon.worldi_have_no_enemies@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square271fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.world
minus-squarehappyhippo@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up64arrow-down28·1 year ago13$ 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…
minus-squareUnspecificGravity@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up55arrow-down3·1 year agoI 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.
minus-squareblue_zephyr@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up32arrow-down1·1 year agoAs if they’ll lower the price once they’ve recouped the R&D costs ten times over.
minus-squareBassTurd@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29arrow-down1·1 year agoWho paid for the R&D?
minus-squarepyldriver@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up48arrow-down3·1 year agoThat would be the us government soooo… The citizens of the usa
minus-squareIHaveTwoCows@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up28·1 year agoTaxpayers, through the university system
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.
As if they’ll lower the price once they’ve recouped the R&D costs ten times over.
Who paid for the R&D?
That would be the us government soooo… The citizens of the usa
Taxpayers, through the university system