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

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by ira@lemmy.ml to c/usa@lemmy.ml

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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 59 points 11 months ago (1 children)

And they used taxpayer dollars to develop it.

[–] Arcane_Trixster@lemm.ee 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Shialac@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Time to make that patent publicly owned