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

    It has an 89% efficacy rate in reducing hospitalization and death among the unvaccinated. I’m sorry that’s not “good enough” for you.

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      I’m just going off the information that my health care provider gave me. She said they only use it on high risk individuals because it’s not as effective as claimed.

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        Might want to find a new health care provider.

        She may be taking you for a ride.