[WhoIsSatoshi]

UK already ordered 30M out of the 50M avail for this year. So no going on winter break to Thailand just yet! Wondering who will grab the next 20M, and how much this vaccine is being sold per dose.

(edit: PFE is currently trading +13% pre-market on the NYSE)

[ralph87]

Small but important nitpick: since at least 2005 there is no "on the NYSE", the price you're likely seeing is the best price consolidated across all national market system venues, the primary listing exchange is mostly only an administrative entity in recent times. Actually some of the largest premarket trading is occurring on NASDAQ and a CBOE-owned exchange called BATS

[FrojoS]

Edit: The article states “ Pfizer believes it will be able to supply 50 million doses by the end of this year, and around 1.3 billion by the end of 2021. The UK should get 10 million doses by the end of the year, with a further 30 million doses already ordered.”

So the UK will only get 10/50 Millionen doses produced this year.

[krzyk]

And what are the side effects.

[tomrod]

My thought exactly.

[refurb]

At least in the US "Pfizer and BioNTech will sell their mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine to the U.S. government at an estimated cost of $19.50 per shot..."

https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/pfizer-biontech-s-u-s-su...

[WhoIsSatoshi]

=> projected cost to the customer seem to be ~ 80/100 per shot with 2 shots needed (if we go with a $20 base + $80 premium)

[crispyporkbites]

isn't the customer the government? are people on the street actually going to have to pay for this?

[bluGill]

Hard to say. What is in the contract? I don't know (I assume it is public but I don't know how to look this up). Different countries may have different contracts.

I wouldn't be surprised if the contract was only that X doses would be provided to the US market (as opposed to shipping to the market in Mexico...). In this case the government is only buying a spot in the shipping queue, and not any doses.

It could be that the doses were bought by the government only for the government (military and politicians), and the rest of us are on our own. (this seems unlikely - doctors should be first in line, but an obvious extension is the doses are for doctors/nurses and the leftover for the above)

It could be the government is buying all doses for their country and will distribute them for no extra charge. This is probably what Europe has done/will do - because they tend to have government health care for anything considered essential.

I wouldn't be surprised if all 3 of the above were in use by different countries. There is disagreement as to which is best on a political level.

[christophilus]

That’s surprisingly cheap. Are they breaking even at that price?