Prominent drugmakers want to more than quadruple the prices of their COVID-19 vaccines when the shots transition to the commercial market later this year, sparking a showdown with congressional lawmakers.
from the U.S. government were payments for products that the government acquired, but only upon delivery of the products,” the company said in a statement. “We have invested from our own resources at risk and are prepared to continue to bear the costs of development and manufacturing to advance COVID vaccines and therapeutics.”said its price reflects “the value of our vaccine from both a human health and economic perspective.
It is “sort of a market assessment — what will the market bear for this?” she said. “That’s different from the government coming in and saying, ‘We want millions of doses, and here’s what we’re going to pay.’” More than 8 in 10 Americans have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, and over two-thirds have completed a two-dose series.
Demand for the bivalent boosters, specifically, averaged 600,000 doses per day in October, shortly after their authorization. That average fell to about 41,000 shots per day by the start of this month, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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