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Pfizer says it will price Covid treatment Paxlovid at nearly $1,400 for a five-day course, which researchers estimate only costs Pfizer $13 to produce. That's a 10,000%+ markup. Shameful. (mastodon.world)

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[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

People vote for it every two years and are shocked, just shocked when they get precisely what they voted for.

[-] eskimofry@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Do you think pfizer and other companies who spend hundreds of millions lobbying would be like "aww shucks! the public voted to curb our shitty behavior, let's go home!"?

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