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The R&D at either Moderna or Pfizer was paid for by tax payers.

• iLoveOncall 4y ago
  > Pfizer did not accept federal funding to help develop or manufacture the vaccine https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/11/10/health/was-the-pfizer-vaccine-part-of-the-governments-operation-warp-speed.amp.html https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/11/10/heal... "Tax payers" also means nothing when vaccines are developed in one or a few countries but sold to all countries in the world. Pretty sure Zimbabwean tax payers didn't fund the Pfizer vaccines.
  • Wowfunhappy 4y ago
    > "Tax payers" also means nothing when vaccines are developed in one or a few countries but sold to all countries in the world. Pretty sure Zimbabwean tax payers didn't fund the Pfizer vaccines. Your first point notwithstanding, I don't think this is relevant. Regardless of whether R&D was funded by US taxpayers or German taxpayers or martian lizard people, it means there is no R&D cost for the company to recoup. The US could theoretically (!) try to recoup their costs from foreign governments whose countries benefitted from a cheap, US-funded vaccine, but that becomes a diplomatic issue.
  • weesh 4y ago
    wow, pfizer is so nice! they're not making money off the vaccine! i wonder how the US acquired so many of them
  • ls15 4y ago
    Because the Pfizer vaccine wasn't developed by Pfizer, but by Biontech, who received funding from German tax payers and other institutions.
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