Just to show how absolutely demented our financialized economy has become, look at the stock of Tiziana Life Sciences this year, with stock symbol TLSA:
https://markets.businessinsider.com/stocks/tlsa-stock?utm_so...
https://markets.businessinsider.com/stocks/tlsa-stock?utm_so...
Sorrento (SRNE) went from $1.70 in March to $19 due to peddling Covid this and Covid that (currently at $7 with a $1.78 billion market cap).
Moderna (MRNA) went from $18 in February to $95 at the peak of Covid vaccine mania. At the top it had something like a $37 billion market cap, which is not much below Biogen's $44 billion market cap (Biogen has $14 billion in sales and $7 billion in operating income).