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“Giving away their vaccine” is the straw man. There is a huge range between free and maximum profits. I’m not arguing that they shouldn’t be incentivized with

“Giving away their vaccine” is the straw man. There is a huge range between free and maximum profits. I’m not arguing that they shouldn’t be incentivized with a profit, the question is how much and what's in the best interest of the American people, not just Pfizer and Moderna.

creato 5y ago
Do you think the ~$20/dose Pfizer and Moderna are charging is unreasonable?
- geoduck14 5y ago
  For poor people in India or Africa - yes.
- BurningFrog 5y ago
  At $20/dose you can vaccinate all of humanity twice for $300B. An incredible bargain. The US government has spent $5300B in pandemic relief packages. Vaccinating the planet could have been a cheap PR win barely noticed among that. Except there just isn't production capacity for that on the planet. https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2021/03/heres-everything-congress-has-done-to-respond-to-the-coronavirus-so-far https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2021/03/heres-everything-congress-...
  - Marsymars 5y ago
    > Except there just isn't production capacity for that on the planet. But it's not like we're fully utilizing the available production capacity. https://www.piie.com/blogs/realtime-economic-issues-watch/dont-let-curevacs-covid-19-vaccine-supply-chain-go-waste https://www.piie.com/blogs/realtime-economic-issues-watch/do...
BurningFrog 5y ago
I was responding to this, written by someone else: > force the drug manufactures to share the capability with the rest of the world