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Re:Hepatitis C kills more Americans than all other infectiou... by inasio on Thursday December 26, 2019 @12:52PM (#21885448)
It cost exactly 11 billion for Gilead to "develop" Sofosbuvir

(they bought Pharmasset who discovered the drug [1])

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

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Re:Hepatitis C kills more Americans than all other infectiou... by refurb on Thursday December 26, 2019 @07:46PM (#21888165)
They didn’t buy an approved drug, they bought a clinical lead. They still spent a ton getting it approved.
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