Cory DoctorowJan 25, 2023

#Moderna is quadrupling the cost of #covid #vaccines, from $26/dose to $110-130. Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel calls the price hike "consistent with the value" of the #MRNA vaccines. Moderna's manufacturing costs are $2.85/dose, for a 4,460% markup on every dose:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/01/moderna-may-match-pfizers-400-price-hike-on-covid-vaccines-report-says/

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/24/nationalize-moderna/#herd-immunity

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Moderna CEO: 400% price hike on COVID vaccine “consistent with the value”

Lawmakers have already called Pfizer's similar plan "pure and deadly greed."

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Show threadKat Earthren LiuJan 25, 2023
@pluralistic
I'm not an anti-vaxxer. I'm up-to-date on COVID vaccinations. But part of me can understand why there is distrust of the vaccines. Because these vaccines are obviously BIG MONEY for the corporations that make them, and they have every incentive to have it such that we are required to continue getting them every few months in perpetuity.
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@shaktinah @pluralistic That's not what's going to happen, though; the mandates "will never come back" and the jurisdictions (globally) will pay for what they can afford e.g., not Moderna, and not the best-matched product for the circulating strain.

See also: the flu.

I missed my one chance to get the Moderna bivalent booster and now I'm sorry I did. 11% increased risk of dying of the plague, for me and mine now, versus 7% and possibly full-Omicron coverage protection with the Moderna booster.

Ah well. If there's any left, and there's not a wildly divergent from Omicron plague circulating by then, I'll update with Moderna. But I highly doubt that, given the circumstances.

Jan 25, 2023 at 8:33pmWeb