i_have_no_enemies@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years 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-square198fedilinkarrow-up11.96Karrow-down150
arrow-up11.91Karrow-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 · 2 years agomessage-square198fedilink
minus-squareclausetrophobic@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up46arrow-down26·edit-22 years agoFuck off with the big pharma apologetics. Boo hoo the corporation got millions in taxpayer money to develop a vaccine and now they have to profit off of it. I feel so bad for them. This is subtle astroturfing.
minus-squareRBG@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·2 years agoGuess this comment of mine will also get deleted but here goes nothing. The article is about antiviral medicine, not a vaccine. So you are getting angry at the wrong thing.
minus-squareLufyCZ@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·2 years agoAre we talking about the vaccine here? Sounds like a post-exposure drug to me
Fuck off with the big pharma apologetics.
Boo hoo the corporation got millions in taxpayer money to develop a vaccine and now they have to profit off of it. I feel so bad for them.
This is subtle astroturfing.
Guess this comment of mine will also get deleted but here goes nothing.
The article is about antiviral medicine, not a vaccine. So you are getting angry at the wrong thing.
Are we talking about the vaccine here? Sounds like a post-exposure drug to me