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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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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Quoting one figure is pretty useless to make a point as it exists only as "A big number" with nothing to compare it to.

Since you know their financials enough to quote one figure here:

What is their annual revenue?

What is their annual profit?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

They're a publicly traded company. All that info is published in their annual financial report

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Like quoting the production cost without any evidence or considering any R&D costs? I did not start the bullshit.