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

    Remember when the COVID vaccine came out and all the “nationalize healthcare” mfs started worshipping pharmaceutical companies as the greatest thing in history? Pretty funny, huh?