Pfizer Spikes Paxlovid Prices to 100 Times Cost of Production
Pfizer Spikes Paxlovid Prices to 100 Times Cost of Production
Pfizer recently announced it would increase the U.S. list price of its patented Covid treatment nirmatrelvir-ritonavir (Paxlovid) to $1,390 for a five-day treatment course. Experts at Harvard University have estimated that the cost of producing a five-day course of nirmatrelvir-ritonavir is $13. Pub...
Pfizer recently announced it would increase the U.S. list price of its patented Covid treatment nirmatrelvir-ritonavir (Paxlovid) to $1,390 for a five-day treatment course. Experts at Harvard University have estimated that the cost of producing a five-day course of nirmatrelvir-ritonavir is $13.
cool, love that. i think it's awesome that you can just unilaterally mark up the cost of an essential medicine like this.
Definitely no serious consequences to such a thing, no siree.
I personally liked the working of “spikes” into the headline.
I also personally don’t like the price jump.
I’d love to know what their R&D cost that went into it was though.