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Re:WHO asks South African startup to replicate Moderna's mRN... by tastyfreeze on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @01:57PM (#28933757)
> Moderna will price their drug as high as they can to recoup losses incurred during the pandemic

That statement implies that they haven't been paid market price for their vaccine during the pandemic. Vaccines were not provided for free by any manufacturer. They were selling doses to governments as fast as they could be made making billions in the process. Pfizer is projecting $26 billion to $33.5 billion in COVID-19 vaccine revenue this year. Moderna is projecting $15 billion to $30 billion in 2022 COVID-19 vaccine revenue.

https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/pfizer-moderna-turn-up-c...

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Re:WHO asks South African startup to replicate Moderna's mRN... by logifail on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @02:02PM (#28933814)
> Vaccines were not provided for free by any manufacturer. They were selling doses to governments as fast as they could be made making billions in the process.

Not all of them:

AstraZeneca vaccine - was it really worth it?

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56570364

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Re:WHO asks South African startup to replicate Moderna's mRN... by cratermoon on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @08:33PM (#28938745)
> That statement implies that they haven't been paid market price for their vaccine during the pandemic.

You'll forgive me if I don't see how I implied they were giving away their vaccines. It's certain that the vaccines makers will do everything they can to profit from the mRNA breakthroughs that they could have cashed in on absent a global pandemic. A little goodwill PR now could go a long way towards keeping regulators and politicians off their backs as they use their government-subsidized inventions for private profit.

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