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Pfizer Will Charge $1,390 For 1 Course Of COVID Drug Paxlovid On Commercial Market (www.huffpost.com)
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Nearly $100 per pill

Edit: nearly $50 per pill, thought a course was 15 pills instead of 30. Still outrageous.

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[–] winterayars@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

They just want to line their pockets. At lot of this stuff they don't even pay the research on, or did so long ago (like insulin) that they recouped the cost many times over.