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But it won’t be
Oh, it will be, but they’ll mark it up 100,000%
Then it won’t be 25 dollars.
Nobody was saying it would be. The headline and article are about production costs at different scales, not prices for anyone buying it after that.Hill had calculated a generic price of $40 annually last year, but said the interest from generic manufacturers had warranted new analysis. This showed lenacapavir could be mass produced for $35 to $46 a year, if there was annual demand for 2m doses, falling to $25 at scaled up production of 5m to 10m doses each year.
Oh wait, I missed a line where the article actually suggests this…
Dr Hill’s research indicates that this gamechanging innovation could – within a year of launch – be produced and sold for just $25 per person per year.
But you’re right, they won’t sell it for $0 of profit. It would be nice.
No they’ll sell it for 50x what an annual treatment regimen costs. That way they can grind down the desperate and still profit off the rich.
FDA can grant exclusivity to that drug. And then once there’s finally a generic that can also be granted a one year exclusivity. The FDA facilitates scarcity.
It’ll cost $25 to produce. Selling cost is another matter entirely.
Pharma C-suite:
that doesn’t sound very profitable
I fucking wish I was kidding
“But how does this expand shareholder value”
I mean, it doesn’t actually end it, to have to keep taking their pill. It’s a subscription model to life.
Pill
You could read the article before you comment lol
You caught me!
Except in the United States, where it will be $1500 a dose.
Or it’ll be banned because it just facilitates the gay lifestyle.
Only 1500?
I love your positivism thinking that it would only cost 1500 in the US
That’s $1,500 with a coupon and the highest tier healthcare coverage that very few people outside of tech workers actually get. You don’t want to know what the out-of-pocket cost for something like this would be.
And you have to take a dose everyday or some horrible side effect will occur.
i understand that if it costs $25 to make it then it needs to cost a bit more for supply chain, profits etc (regularly a 50% increase from factory and another 50% increase to retail), but i’ll bet you a $500 bottle of HIV-ending drugs that this wont cost $56.25.
That $25 estimate included a 30% profit margin already.
$500 a bottle would be practically giving it away in the US. Most life sustaining meds or the rare cure are sold at unfathomable prices. One of my post-transplant anti rejection meds is $60,000 a month
Let’s call it $100 per head.
Hey Elon, you wanna leave behind a legacy that doesn’t suck?
Here’s your last chance, asshole.
Well that’ll never happen - not when the drug companies can sell $2000 a month or die medication to the inflicted for the rest of their lives.
Can we hurry up with this please. I want to cum buckets in my femboy slut. OK, thx, bye.
Obama is welcome to join too
Thats the spirit !
daddy breed my hole
It costs you significantly leas than 25 bucks to not write shit like that
Let people be horny, it’s the only thing keeping the corpo shitheads out of this place.
Hm, never thought about it from this perspective. In this case, penis then. Balls even.
It costs significantly less to have a sense of humour.
Let the debaucherous degenerate have their fun. Not like they’re hurting anyone, unlike the profligates known as the Mormons.
Im okay with it.
Infinite breeding here I cum!
At $25-$50/yr with low to no risk of getting HIV I would get the shot. Just like a flu or COVID shot.
Twice yearly shot? Yup, sign me up.
As a medical provider, I’ll probably be required to get it.
If this shot were to become common in the gay community, would that just leave the IV drug community to be the main transmitter of HIV? Could we potentially see HIV effectively eradicated?
I don’t really know bit my supposition would be that eradication isn’t really on the table presently.
This is only a prophylactic. There are people right now with HIV who (excluding a “cure” emerging) will be potentially infectious in 40 or 50 years.
In the short to medium term making this accessible to populations in areas with a high prevalence could avoid millions of infections.
naming your company fucking “Gilead” is some torment nexus-ass shit
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It looks like that’s indeed the case, and they’ve been around long enough that Handmaid’s probably wasn’t that well-known at the time. Still, the irony is off the charts… have they considered changing their logo to the traditional four-armed rotationally-symmetric sacred Buddhist symbol? >.>
They considered, but there were too many other contenders.
No they’re going with a sonnenrad.
Yeah, I grimaced at the name and implications.
the company has been around for a long time, before the book was made famous, one of the first things i saw when applying to lab/biotech was gilead position for scientists. this was already 10 years ago.
they even have transportaiton buses from our city to thier campuses, because its quite far away from a city if you work in biotech.
yeah, I did check dates after, my irony circuits were just too fried when I first read it >.>
Gilead
Oh, so it’s assured they will bleed people dry then, based on this company’s track record.
This is the drug I’m super hyped about. Even if it was $35, it would be life-changing for millions of people.
Shit, let’s make it $100 per year so they can make lots of money.
you’re thinking too small
1000$/year baybeee!
or rather, they’ll find the perfect balance of profitability, between how many people can afford it VS how much they’d pay for it
the poors will die but that is a sacrifice they are enthusiastic to make
