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Pfizer and Moderna ramp up EU Covid vaccine prices
- MikeUt 5y ago"At least 97% of the funding for the development of the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine has been identified as coming from taxpayers or charitable trusts [..] Oxford University initially said any vaccine it developed would be open to qualified manufacturers to produce without paying royalties, and priced either at cost or at a small profit. However, by August 2020, reportedly at the urging of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, among others, the university decided to change course. It entered an exclusive licensing agreement with the British-Swedish drugmaker AstraZeneca." - https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/apr/15/oxfordastrazeneca-covid-vaccine-research-was-97-publicly-funded https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/apr/15/oxfordastraz... I'd like to see a similar analysis made for the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.
- tomohawk 5y agoGiven how the EU treated AstraZeneca, it makes sense that other companies would price in the expected risk of doing business with the EU.
- sorethescore 5y agoRead the room, Pfizer and Moderna, this move will backfire in a big way if they go through with it.
- simonblack 5y agoIt's called 'A captive market'.