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Originally Posted by jonbxx
I've been catching up on some work related news websites to see what's new and found this article - Top 7 Best Selling COVID-19 Vaccines and Drugs of 2020 . This has 2020 sales figures and forecasts for 2021.
There's a lot of money out there for the pharma companies (and their suppliers )
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It’s worth remembering that sales revenue is not the same as profit. Both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are significantly more expensive than most of the others listed there, especially the AZ vaccine which by some measures is the cheapest of the lot, although this may be partly due to the not-for-profit basis on which AstraZeneca was given the formulation developed at Oxford University.
There’s a decent infographic here, detailing what unit price the pharma companies are selling covid vaccines at:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55170756