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Skybird · 02-18-21, 12:29 PM

Focus reports:

The pharmaceutical companies Biontech / Pfizer initially demanded an extremely high price in the negotiations with the EU about the delivery of the corona vaccine they had developed. According to information from Süddeutscher Zeitung, NDR and WDR, the consortium demanded 54.08 euros per dose for its vaccine, with a purchase of 500 million doses. Pfizer / Biontech wanted a total of 27 billion euros for a quantity of the vaccine that could have been used to vaccinate half of the EU population. The price, according to the companies, includes "the highest percentage discount" that has been offered to an industrialized country worldwide. At 54.08 euros, the Biontech vaccine would have been more than twenty times as expensive as a dose of the vaccine that Astrazeneca developed together with Oxford University. The chairman of the Drugs Commission of the German Medical Association, Wolf Dieter Ludwig, criticized the demand as "dubious". This shows "the pursuit of profit which is in no way justified in the current situation of the pandemic". According to information from SZ, NDR and WDR, the price agreed with Pfizer / Biontech for a dose of the vaccine was 15.50 euros per dose.

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Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 40,676 Downloads: 9 Uploads: 0	Focus reports: The pharmaceutical companies Biontech / Pfizer initially demanded an extremely high price in the negotiations with the EU about the delivery of the corona vaccine they had developed. According to information from Süddeutscher Zeitung, NDR and WDR, the consortium demanded 54.08 euros per dose for its vaccine, with a purchase of 500 million doses. Pfizer / Biontech wanted a total of 27 billion euros for a quantity of the vaccine that could have been used to vaccinate half of the EU population. The price, according to the companies, includes "the highest percentage discount" that has been offered to an industrialized country worldwide. At 54.08 euros, the Biontech vaccine would have been more than twenty times as expensive as a dose of the vaccine that Astrazeneca developed together with Oxford University. The chairman of the Drugs Commission of the German Medical Association, Wolf Dieter Ludwig, criticized the demand as "dubious". This shows "the pursuit of profit which is in no way justified in the current situation of the pandemic". According to information from SZ, NDR and WDR, the price agreed with Pfizer / Biontech for a dose of the vaccine was 15.50 euros per dose. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.