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Re:Hepatitis C kills more Americans than all other infectiou... by gengchun88 on Thursday December 26, 2019 @11:25AM (#21884848)
If you are talking about a virus only affect small amount of population, I can understand this marketing strategy.

But Hepatitis C. is a virus infects 143 million, which means it even with a $10k profit margin for one in ten here should be at least $1 Trillion profits. A company like BMS do expanding like $20 billion annually. For me all most like they could afford to operate like half of century for just one drug. No way it is sold for almost $100k price for just breaking even.

Correct: Sorry it was Gilead Science developed Harvoni. So $22B revenue minus $8 operating incoming.

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Re:Hepatitis C kills more Americans than all other infectiou... by inasio on Thursday December 26, 2019 @12:44PM (#21885405)
No, Gilead didn't develop Harvoni/Sovaldi/Sofosbuvir, it was originally discovered by Pharmasset, and then Gilead bought them for 11 billion [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofosbuvir#History

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Re:Hepatitis C kills more Americans than all other infectiou... by gengchun88 on Thursday December 26, 2019 @08:18PM (#21888302)
Oh, thanks.

That simplified R&D cost calculation. $11B for $3.5 m persons in U.S. and 90% successful rate means R&D cost(merge cost) definitely less than $4k per person.

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