Pfizer will list its COVID-19 treatment Paxlovid at a price of $1,390 per five-day course when it soon hits the commercial market, the drugmaker confirmed to Axios.
Why it matters: Paxlovid’s new listed price, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, will be more than twice the $529 paid by the federal government, which until now has maintained the entire U.S. supply of the key antiviral medication.
Apparently it really doesn’t work as well as it claims to, so maybe this will drive development of a better antiviral.
It has an 89% efficacy rate in reducing hospitalization and death among the unvaccinated. I’m sorry that’s not “good enough” for you.
I’m just going off the information that my health care provider gave me. She said they only use it on high risk individuals because it’s not as effective as claimed.
It does work, amazingly. I had Covid a few times and took Paxlovid the last time. It works better than any drug I’ve taken. After taking the first dose, there were no more Covid symptoms within 4-6 hours.
The problem with Paxlovid (besides the cost) is that it gives you a new set of side effects: weird joint and muscle pain, a metallic taste in the mouth, etc. They’re better than Covid though. And it won’t kill you.
Just because it worked for you doesn’t mean that the effectiveness in their trials represents real world numbers. I’m not pulling this out of my ass, I was told this by a medical professional.
There are many types of “medical professionals”. Only a vast minority actually read and interpret trial data.
I’m going to trust my direct experience with the drug (I know it works) and real world studies like below.
Conclusions: This study suggests that in the era of Omicron and in real-life settings, Paxlovid is highly effective in reducing the risk of severe COVID-19 or mortality.
I was told this by a medical professional.
What about all the medical professionals that disagree with your medical professional?
This is why people like you should keep quiet on matters they know nothing about. If you want to understand something, you have to research it yourself.
Remember when the COVID vaccine came out and all the “nationalize healthcare” mfs started worshipping pharmaceutical companies as the greatest thing in history? Pretty funny, huh?
Here ya go. My point being is that two years ago if you criticized pharmaceutical companies as still being greedy, soulless corporations you’d be laughed at and shadow banned for daring to insult our world’s saviors.
If the government paid, you paid through taxes, you just didn’t pay at the counter when you got them.
I’m guessing you’re an antivaxxer? Everyone still recognized the bs Pfizer and Moderna did during the pandemic. The world is not black and white, bad companies can still do things that benefit society.
everyone I dont like is a nazi
Wrong. Got vaccinated within the first month of vaccines being given to the public and got boosted last week
Why did you use a quote and not use any of his words, or even the gist of what he said? At no point in that comment did he approach saying that
Fucking monsters, capitalism is a fucking cancer
this is fucking criminal
Maybe. Definite grounds for violation of price gouging laws unless another producer can easily fill the supply gap, which is entirely reliant on how much time is left before the change AND the availability of production methods which are beholden to intellectual property laws.
it’s criminal on a human level, not a law level. idgaf about gouging laws. charging $1400 for something that can be lifesaving is fucking criminal. especially when it’s more than DOUBLE what the govt was paying for it. If you want to know how much a human life is worth to these fucks, start here.
Honestly 1400 for a 5 day course of this is more reasonable than I expected. It’s still unreasonable, but I just figured it’s be way higher.
