Myth: vaccines are massive money-makers for EVIL PHARMA Reality: best evidence indicates that most vaccines save AT LEAST $40 USD per dose given, much of which is in drug costs
No, actually they mostly cost pharma companies money. In the case of COVID-19, a vaccine dose costs a fraction of the cost of an inpatient schedule of medications, and the same companies make both!
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This is a totallising statement. Itis not true of all but a few therapies. Historically most therapies jave not made super profits hence retreat of pharma from vaccine innovation. But they generally make $ (they are only rarely loss leaders). Its just not standard Pharma model
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In isolation, they certainly do generally make money (although never blockbusters), but as a feature in the system of drug sales they almost always reduce the overall income due to the disease that they prevent
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This partucular analysis ignores the fact that most people that get vaxxed would not get hospitalised without getting vaxxed, and also the predicted $5bn p.a. booster market.https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/aug/13/drug-firms-billions-dollars-covid-booster-jabs-sales-biontech-moderna-pfizer-drugs-flu …
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You mean private companies agree to lose money? Dreamworld.
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Nope, I'm saying private companies invest in very modestly profitable immunizations (that do indeed sometimes lose money) rather than developing much more profitable medications. There are a number of reasons for this!
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WTF - much of the vaccine research was funded by taxpayers, yet all the profit goes to big pharma. Every week that passes you seem more and more out of touch with reality. You paint yourself as an edgy scientist, but you make huge compromises in pursuit of influencer status.
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That's an interpretation of the facts that distorts the reality. ”Much" of the expensive and extensive testing is conducted by the companies not the taxpayer. They invest where taxpayers wouldn't, and they scale up production where government can't. WTF is wrong?
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