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Pfizer and Moderna ramp up EU Covid vaccine prices

4 pointsby hheikinhalmost 4 years ago

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MikeUtalmost 4 years ago
&quot;At least 97% of the funding for the development of the Oxford&#x2F;AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine has been identified as coming from taxpayers or charitable trusts [..] Oxford University initially said any vaccine it developed would be open to qualified manufacturers to produce without paying royalties, and priced either at cost or at a small profit. However, by August 2020, reportedly at the urging of the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation, among others, the university decided to change course. It entered an exclusive licensing agreement with the British-Swedish drugmaker AstraZeneca.&quot; - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;2021&#x2F;apr&#x2F;15&#x2F;oxfordastrazeneca-covid-vaccine-research-was-97-publicly-funded" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;2021&#x2F;apr&#x2F;15&#x2F;oxfordastraz...</a><p>I&#x27;d like to see a similar analysis made for the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.
tomohawkalmost 4 years ago
Given how the EU treated AstraZeneca, it makes sense that other companies would price in the expected risk of doing business with the EU.
sorethescorealmost 4 years ago
Read the room, Pfizer and Moderna, this move will backfire in a big way if they go through with it.
simonblackalmost 4 years ago
It&#x27;s called &#x27;A captive market&#x27;.