[poof131]

“Giving away their vaccine” is the straw man. There is a huge range between free and maximum profits. I’m not arguing that they shouldn’t be incentivized with a profit, the question is how much and what's in the best interest of the American people, not just Pfizer and Moderna.

[BurningFrog]

I was responding to this, written by someone else:

> force the drug manufactures to share the capability with the rest of the world

[creato]

Do you think the ~$20/dose Pfizer and Moderna are charging is unreasonable?

[BurningFrog]

At $20/dose you can vaccinate all of humanity twice for $300B. An incredible bargain.

The US government has spent $5300B in pandemic relief packages. Vaccinating the planet could have been a cheap PR win barely noticed among that.

Except there just isn't production capacity for that on the planet.

https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2021/03/heres-everything-congress-...

[Marsymars]

> Except there just isn't production capacity for that on the planet.

But it's not like we're fully utilizing the available production capacity.

https://www.piie.com/blogs/realtime-economic-issues-watch/do...

[geoduck14]

For poor people in India or Africa - yes.