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2022-10-21 Economy

Pfizer expects to raise COVID vaccine price to $110-$130 per dose

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Posted by Besoeker 2022-10-21 07:30|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Reuters earlier on Thursday reported that Wall Street was expecting such price hikes due to weak COVID vaccine demand.

"Demand" dying off is it ?

Posted by Besoeker 2022-10-21 07:33|| 2022-10-21 07:33|| Front Page Top

#2 Wait, I thought it was 'free'!

Posted by Bobby 2022-10-21 07:52|| 2022-10-21 07:52|| Front Page Top

#3 Oh, it's still 'free' - no cost to people who have insurance.

Posted by Bobby 2022-10-21 07:53|| 2022-10-21 07:53|| Front Page Top

#4 not free at all , the taxpayers have been paying for it

Posted by Chris 2022-10-21 09:34|| 2022-10-21 09:34|| Front Page Top

#5 Never mentioned is the fact that free is usually priced appropriately.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-10-21 09:52|| 2022-10-21 09:52|| Front Page Top

#6 Just in time for mandatory shots for school. How weird.

Pfizer said it expects the COVID-19 market to be about the size of the flu shot market on an annual basis for adults, but that the pediatric market would take longer to build based on shots given so far.

So they admit, right there in front of your nose, it is a market driven decision.

Reuters earlier on Thursday reported that Wall Street was expecting such price hikes due to weak COVID vaccine demand.

Bull Shit.

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-10-21 10:12|| 2022-10-21 10:12|| Front Page Top

#7 Calling Bull Sh!t in this situation seems like an insult to Bulls everywhere. (Except maybe in Chicago)

Are they going to test this one first?

Posted by AlanC 2022-10-21 14:59|| 2022-10-21 14:59|| Front Page Top

#8 If I understand things right, and help me if I'm off here, but what seems to be in the works is perpetual immunity from prosecution, the reasoning being that if children are required to get jabbed in order to attend school, or at least the broad recommendation to get jabbed as part of their yearly shots, then this is an ongoing emergency thus emergency powers stay in place 'until the emergency is resolved.'

Testing is expensive and may show a flawed product, and if they are immune to damages, why?

Call this a modified Epi Pen - remember back when the price of an Epi Pen like tripled almost overnight, and then a couple days later a law passed requiring a certain number of Epi Pens to be available at all times, at every school? I think every federal building as well. IIRC alternative treatments (generic brands) were outlawed and their proponents branded a public nuisance for wanting to play with peoples' lives.

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-10-21 15:34|| 2022-10-21 15:34|| Front Page Top

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