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2020-06-30 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Gilead sets pricing for coronavirus drug remdesivir, could cost over $3G

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Posted by Skidmark 2020-06-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 And we are surprised?

Posted by Clem 2020-06-30 00:09|| 2020-06-30 00:09|| Front Page Top

#2 I do (in response to #3)

Posted by Chris 2020-06-30 00:25|| 2020-06-30 00:25|| Front Page Top

O'Day wrote in the letter, explaining the pricing decisions. "Taking the example of the United States, earlier hospital discharge would result in hospital savings of approximately $12,000 per patient. Even just considering these immediate savings to the healthcare system alone, we can see the potential value that remdesivir provides.

So the recovered Georgia patient would conceivably have the potential to win $53 million dollars in the Georgia 'Mega Millions' Lottery. Therefore his Remdesivir treatment should be somewhere in the neighborhood of 10% of the potential winnings, or $5.3 million dollars.

Does everyone follow my Gilead logic and math? Big Pharma, don't ya just love'em ?

Posted by Besoeker 2020-06-30 00:26|| 2020-06-30 00:26|| Front Page Top

#4 Hydroxychloroquine at 17 cents/pill is looking better and better.

Posted by Grineter Elmavirt6492 2020-06-30 00:57|| 2020-06-30 00:57|| Front Page Top

#5 So, in exchange for shelling out $3,120 for a six-vial treatment, I could have a 65% chance of shortening my WuFlu recovery time from 15 days to 11 days?

Fantastic. What a deal!

Posted by Dave D. 2020-06-30 02:05|| 2020-06-30 02:05|| Front Page Top

#6 If anybody needed a reason to understand why HCQ clinical tests were so bad.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-06-30 03:35|| 2020-06-30 03:35|| Front Page Top

#7 Gentlemen, I think we've discovered one of the shakedowns.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-06-30 04:00|| 2020-06-30 04:00|| Front Page Top

#8 I wonder how much Fauci will get.

Posted by Clem 2020-06-30 06:00|| 2020-06-30 06:00|| Front Page Top

#9 Foreign Aid, Ethanol and 'Endless Wars', yet additional famous shakedowns.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-06-30 06:52|| 2020-06-30 06:52|| Front Page Top

#10 Jesse Jackson is a pro at shakedowns. Is he doing any consulting work?

As for the 5¢ fee to cross the bridge, it is basically like each and every tax or fee. It never goes away. For example, I believe the Ohio Turnpike was, once it paid for itself, ultimately to be toll-free. LOL, yeah, right.

Posted by Clem 2020-06-30 06:59|| 2020-06-30 06:59|| Front Page Top

#11 Same with PA Turnpike. There's still a tax on every bottle of liquor in PeeAye to defray the cost of the Johnstown Flood. Not the 1977 one, the 1889 one.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-06-30 10:28|| 2020-06-30 10:28|| Front Page Top

#12 160 million a year for the Golden Gate in tolls alone.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2020-06-30 11:38|| 2020-06-30 11:38|| Front Page Top

#13 San Diego - Coronado bridge had the toll removed once the bonds were paid

Posted by Frank G 2020-06-30 11:44|| 2020-06-30 11:44|| Front Page Top

#14 ^ Great views from the top of that bridge on a clear day.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-06-30 13:57|| 2020-06-30 13:57|| Front Page Top

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