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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. (mastodon.world)
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[โ€“] happyhippo@feddit.it 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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...

[โ€“] blue_zephyr@lemmy.world 26 points 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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