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Pfizer Will Charge $1,390 For 1 Course Of COVID Drug Paxlovid On Commercial Market (www.huffpost.com)

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Nearly $100 per pill

Edit: nearly $50 per pill, thought a course was 15 pills instead of 30. Still outrageous.

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[-] NovaPrime@lemmy.ml 63 points 1 year ago

And they used taxpayer dollars to develop it.

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[-] Arcane_Trixster@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

I think them and Moderna turned the money down because they'd have to share the patent with the government. Trump offered them money, they didn't take it.

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[-] Shialac@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Time to make that patent publicly owned

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