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Oct 14, 2023 10 tweets 4 min read Read on X
⚠️Corrupt “SUE TO DELAY” big pharma shenanigan—➡️ Life saving cancer medicine lenalidomide (Revlimid) costs $720 per generic pill💊 in 🇺🇸. In 🇨🇦, same pill = $10. In Finland 🇫🇮, same pill = 2.5 Euros ($2.63)!!! Despite there being a generic drug, the brand maker Celgene sued to cap generic sales low until 2026–a corrupt pharma practice known as “sue to delay” deal. Meantime, until then, generic & brand drug makers collude and profit share to keep the drug price extremely high. Ever since lenalidomide generics emerged 13 years ago, there’s been plenty of lawsuits & back room collusion deals about it to keep prices inflated. Meanwhile, cancer patients suffer and die from delayed care from it. As a former childhood survivor of a life threatening tumor, this shit disgusts me, and I vow to go after this shit until the day I die. #BigPharma HT @VincentRK
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2) These corrupt pharma shenanigans of “sue to delay” price collision are well documented in many lawsuits. Here is one example. fiercepharma.com/pharma/new-ant…
3) So we did the math. Medicare alone spends ***$5 billion*** on Revlimid each year. US could buy all of it for $20-$100 million (Finland/Canada prices)—saving $5 billion. Every year!! From just this one cancer drug alone!!! But instead, we cut food stamps & kids healthcare. 🔥

Thanks @VincentRK
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4) I have been fighting big pharma for a long time. I am the furthest thing from being a “big pharma shill” if someone knows my history. My passion is for disease prevention, stopping cancer, and public health. If you want to read more:
5) do you remember that drug VIOXX by Merck that was once recalled? Turns out they did some dirty shenanigans to hide the risk from the public. Someone you know once held them accountable:

6) Big Pharma’s greatest scandal in last 20 years was probably Merck’s Vioxx (rofecoxib) debacle. God, I can write a book on this topic honestly. Fortunately someone did. (My story is in it).

“Poison Pills: The Untold Story of the Vioxx Drug Scandal” a.co/d/9K8dARY
7) CRAZIER— the cancer drug Revlimid is only $0.90 USD ($1.43 AUD) in Australia 🇦🇺 per pill 💊, according to Australian oncologist @DrBronKing. And for those elderly who get government discounts, it’s only $0.22 USD (0.35 AUD) per pill for the elderly!!! $0.22-$0.90 per pill 💊 in Australia versus $720-$800 per pill in the U.S.! That is a 3600x fold difference from cheapest AUS price versus US price!!
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8) To be clear, the Australian 🇦🇺 govt price is still only $89 AUD per pill 💊 —or just $56.4 USD. Last time I checked $56 is much less than the full price $700-800 that USG’s Medicare pays! AUS govt negotiates on price. USG still hasn’t yet for this drug. Taxpayers are being royally ripped off.

HT @DrBronKing
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9) how disgusting is this— Revlimid maker BMS (owner of Celgene) made $10 billion revenue from this drug in 2022 alone. 20% of all their global revenue came from one drug! And there plenty of generics that could reduce their profit—but their “sue to delay” tactics and price collusion with generic makers kept the drug sky high for the last 13 years.
@DrBronKing 10) more big pharma price gouging... doubling the cost of Paxlovid. I really pray everyone either avoids COVID or has good health insurance...

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2) “The most frequent SCAs include Turner syndrome (45,X), Klinefelter syndrome (47,XXY), Trisomy X syndrome (47,XXX), and Double Y syndrome (47,XYY).”

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2) "Baloxavir was associated with significantly more rapid declines in infectious viral load than placebo or oseltamivir (Figure 3A and 3B)."
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⚠️WORST FLU SEASON ever since 2002-2003 when we began to track flu (red, first graph). Worst hit this year are children ages 0-4 and 5-17. ▶️We also have significantly LOWER flu vaccine uptake this year, one of the lowest flu vaccine coverages (red 3rd graph). Indisputable facts. Image
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2) I don't need to tell you that certain US states have vastly lower vaccination rates than others. See map (lighter green, less flu vaccination coverage), and which have higher (darker green)...

If you want to see details and demographics on which state has the LOWEST flu vaccine coverage rates... the data is here.
cdc.gov/fluvaxview/das…Image
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