Pfizer plans to sell its Covid vaccine at a 10k% markup
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Did Pfizer just admit that single payer systems are more economical than the privatized mess we have in the US????
So if you're not directly paying it, it is fine? Because _someone_ has to pay for the insurance.
What is it about the flu & covid that require annual boosters? Is it just the prevalence of it creating different variants at a higher rate than other viruses?
Is there a reason beyond cash incentive?
Yes. Mutation is also driven partly by infection rates, so a virus that mutates slowly and infects 1 billion people is going to produce dangerous new strains more rapidly than a virus that mutates quickly and infects 100 people.
> Is there a reason beyond cash incentive?
Yes. Flu vaccines targeted at emerging strains are much, much more effective.
"This year's" flu vaccine is never 100% effective on any strain (which is true of all vaccines), but there's a huge difference between a vaccine that's 80% effective for the majority of flu infections vs. a vaccine that's 20% effective.
For a typical child, there is no benefit to a yearly Covid shot, though a yearly flu shot may be worthwhile.
In consultation with my Dr., I get neither of these.
What makes you come to that conclusion?
Be alert when reading the literature, because PCR tests don't prove infection. The PCR test amplifies genetic fragments.
Every medical treatment has risks which should be considered for each patient.
This would be convincing if mortality were the only measure that mattered, but it isn't. Covid can cause brain, lung, and heart problems that will haunt children for the rest of their lives. We already know that it can cause problems in those organs for months[1].
We also know that long after adults recover from Covid, their risk of all-cause mortality is increased[2].
If vaccines don't increase mortality, then preventing the illness is an extremely compelling reason to recommend it to all children.
1. https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/long-covid-in-kids
2. https://ufhealth.org/news/2022/uf-study-post-covid-mortality...
Immune system battles are extremely hard on the body.
The second link was for "people".
There is a significant lack of rigor in the diagnosis and studies of covid in children, though overall mortality in children is low. For children in decent health, the emergency treatment does not seem warranted until the typical new drug side-effect studies have been completed.
Until the long-term safety studies are in, there are safe alternative prophylactics but those don't make much profit nor yearly recurring booster profits.
Also, what about the dozens of developed countries, many of which in the EU with good health care, that do offer vaccines for children?
« From 1 July, 2022, it will no longer be possible for children and youngsters under the age of 18 to receive the 1st jab, and from 1 September, 2022, it will no longer be possible to receive the 2nd jab,” the Danish Health Authority said. The change was because children and young people rarely suffer severe outcomes of the Omicron variant, it said. »
that is what a ban is. NO LONGER POSSIBLE.
You should have kept reading.
> "The authority said that some children with an increased risk would still be eligible for vaccination, after an assessment from a doctor."
So that is not what a ban is. It's still possible for children to get vaccines, and this decision by Denmark isn't proof that it's a bad idea for children to get vaccines or that it's a bad idea for adults to get vaccines.
When you have to grasp at straws like this, doesn't it sometimes feel like maybe (just maybe) it's time to change your mind about this thing that the vast majority of experts disagree with you on?
make sense. and you know why they did that? because unlike us they value children lives more than old people because they are the future of society. in other countries we sacrify our youngs so the old can be safe and live off their wealth. confinements, vaccines that have higher risk than covid (for,kids and that is why danemark banned it for the average kid)
dont worry youll join danemark decision in ten years when lawsuits will be everywhere in the u.s
Don't be naive and think that Big Pharma's #1 priority is anything but money.
10,000% also sounds a lot worst than "$130 per vial for a production cost of $1.20".
I don't find the price shocking.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/11/10/heal...
"Tax payers" also means nothing when vaccines are developed in one or a few countries but sold to all countries in the world. Pretty sure Zimbabwean tax payers didn't fund the Pfizer vaccines.
Your first point notwithstanding, I don't think this is relevant. Regardless of whether R&D was funded by US taxpayers or German taxpayers or martian lizard people, it means there is no R&D cost for the company to recoup.
The US could theoretically (!) try to recoup their costs from foreign governments whose countries benefitted from a cheap, US-funded vaccine, but that becomes a diplomatic issue.
But even today they are making a 5 dose vial for $9 and selling each shot for $30. If they throw away 4 they still made money.
https://sciencebusiness.net/covid-19/news-byte/how-eu-spent-...