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Like the old saying, you can have 2 out of 3 of good, fast, cheap. For once, cheap is the option being discarded.

• adventured 6y ago
  We're even getting it super cheap. This is already a $10+ trillion pandemic in terms of economic destruction (we'll see economic damage spread out for more than a decade, so the final tally will be even higher). The vaccines are a couple billion dollars each, including manufacturing at scale. A lot of drugs now cost that to bring to market and don't have a small fraction of the positive impact on humanity. If all that existed were market forces, Moderna and Pfizer could charge ten times what they are. They obviously knew the extreme blowback they'd suffer if they did that (including likely nationalization of their vaccines). $20-$30 per dose in affluent nations is absurdly cheap to end this nightmare. That's a couple order-out pizzas.
  • cecilpl2 6y ago
    $20 per dose is one hour of work at the median hourly wage. That is several order of magnitude cheaper than the cost so far.