Pfizer will list its COVID-19 treatment Paxlovid at a price of $1,390 per five-day course when it soon hits the commercial market, the drugmaker confirmed to Axios.

Why it matters: Paxlovid’s new listed price, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, will be more than twice the $529 paid by the federal government, which until now has maintained the entire U.S. supply of the key antiviral medication.

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    1 year ago

    Yeah I’m gonna go ahead and say the guy throwing out accusations like false advertising is the one that needs to think a little more.

    Paxlovid has only ever been advertised as something that “can reduce the risk of hospitalization and death by around 89%”.

    The idea that, somehow, all of the people associated with coming to the “89%” number are somehow magically also associated with a subset of the population that responds well to it is fucking nonsense. It’s the exact same garbage logic that conspiracy theorists use.