it's the flip side of what we were seeing a few years ago. When a pandemic is peaking and demand is high for crucial medical tech, the price will ride the demand all the way to the max. Which will kill people if the price is too high. and it costs countries dearly to have to rely on private enterprise to provide essential public health services.

I think situations like pandemics which could end a civilization if a vaccine couldn't be distributed trumps the usual capitalist shell game of surge pricing.