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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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[-] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 65 points 11 months ago

They made 100 billion in profit and spent 11 on research. They can afford to sell things much much cheaper and still have both profits and research money.

[-] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 11 months ago

But mah greed!!

[-] silent2k@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Their ceo will get fired for transforming a publicly traded company into a welfare organization. If you don’t like that, change our economic system. I would be on board as the same system kills people and environment.

[-] DessertStorms@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago

Never mind all the government subsidy which of course comes from the tax pot

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