Drug and vaccine prices have always been very closely guarded commercial secrets. Photograph: Robin Utrecht/Rex/Shutterstock
Pharmaceutical companies complain of breach of confidentiality after amount EU has agreed to pay for leading vaccines goes public
A Belgian minister has blown the lid off a sensitive and commercial secret – the price that the EU has agreed to pay for the leading Covid vaccines.
Belgium’s budget state secretary, Eva De Bleeker, posted the price list on Twitter, with the amounts of each vaccine that her country intends to buy from the EU.
The tweet was quickly deleted, but not soon enough to prevent interested parties taking screenshots, which have now made it public knowledge.
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WNU Editor: This is the list of what the EU is paying:
Oxford/AstraZeneca: €1.78 (£1.61).
Johnson & Johnson: $8.50 (£6.30).
Sanofi/GSK: €7.56.
Pfizer/BioNTech: €12.
CureVac: €10.
Moderna: $18.
3 comments:
This was not an accident on her part.
It is all fun and games until you have to do the logistics, accounting and quality control.
Merely giving the cost per does without breaking out costs is the AOC school of logic.
There are different vaccine types shown there with different production costs. So right off the bat is is not an apples to apples comparison.
You could lower costs by fiat to those that vets pay for animal vaccines, but would be trust the quality?
And if the EU still won't negotiate in good faith, the UK should up the cost per shot for their Oxford University/Astra Zeneca vaccine. Looks like the UK is being taken for a ride once again, by those unelected officials in Brussels...
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