I guess pharmaceutical prices and “value” are inversely related to utility, then. At $26 per dose, two doses prevented well over 90% of Covid cases. At the new

I guess pharmaceutical prices and “value” are inversely related to utility, then. At $26 per dose, two doses prevented well over 90% of Covid cases. At the new higher price, even the bivalent vaccine seems to prevent rather fewer cases [0]. Maybe Moderna can sell $1000 doses of saline solution! [0] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.17.22283625v1.full https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.17.22283625v... gives about 30% effectiveness for the bivalent vaccine (read it for what this means). https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/pdfs/mm7148e1-H.pdf https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/pdfs/mm7148e1-H.pdf gives IMO really quite embarrassingly poor results for vaccination of any sort. edit: at least the relative vaccine effectiveness table towards the end of the MMWR report consists of entirely positive numbers.