Thread by @SkyScottBeasley

💉💸 Stark difference between big pharma over COVID

🕊 AstraZeneca & Johnson&Johnson will produce their vaccines not for profit during pandemic

💵 Pfizer now expects $15 BILLION in revenue for its vaccine THIS YEAR

💵 with profit margin in the high 20s % -could be $4bn profit

🇺🇸 🇩🇪 Pfizer splits costs and profits with BioNTech

💉 It’s vaccine costs about $20

💷 AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine is more like $4

🌍 that vaccine will be provided to the developing world at cost in perpetuity

🤷‍♂️ You pays your money & you takes your choice-Pfizer vaccine uses new, cutting edge technology & they were first to get approval

It’s a private company with shareholders & its job is to make money - that’s how they fund incredibly expensive research & development

🤔 But is a profit margin like that sustainable year after year if this pandemic persists and we need ongoing vaccination of populations?

Especially with a new administration in the White House, that will face huge pressure

🇷🇺 Some info on Russian Sputnik V jab

💵 About $10 a dose (2 dose course)
📈 91.8% effective, inc. older groups
📰 Data now peer reviewed in Lancet
🥶 Store in normal 2-8c refrigeration

💉 Vaccinations starting this week in
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