tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post6361936142749444974..comments2024-03-06T06:34:42.881-05:00Comments on EconoSpeak: Potential Pricing for RemdesivirUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-33540671247636242272020-05-05T16:03:10.022-04:002020-05-05T16:03:10.022-04:00Anonymous, I was the "shot card" which r...Anonymous, I was the "shot card" which recorded the 4 parts of the early polio vaccine I received. I remember a girl in our neighborhood confined to a wheel chair by polio.<br /><br />We lived in NYC and the vaccine was a miracle to my parents.ilsmnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-77929385922733012452020-05-05T06:37:50.554-04:002020-05-05T06:37:50.554-04:00Americans have prohibited Gilead from selling remd...Americans have prohibited Gilead from selling remdesivir outside of the United States....<br /><br />[ Please do reference this; I have found no such prohibition. ]Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-37486467529207691032020-05-04T23:15:35.200-04:002020-05-04T23:15:35.200-04:00Americans have prohibited Gilead from selling remd...Americans have prohibited Gilead from selling remdesivir outside of the United States....<br /><br />[ Please reference this; I have found no reference:<br /><br />https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/03/health/us-government-remdesivir-distribution/index.html<br /><br />Asked whether the Trump administration has discussed using the Defense Production Act to mandate prioritization of the US market over foreign markets, O'Day said: "I think we're aligned with the US government to both serve the patients here in the United States and then to be able to also make sure, as a global company based here in the United States, that we can serve other countries around the world as well."<br /><br />CBS's Margaret Brennan then asked for confirmation: "So they haven't talked to you about mandating the US market be prioritized, or taking it for the stockpile, for example. You can still export it?"<br /><br />"That's correct," O'Day said. "We have been exporting for clinical trials and for compassionate use, thousands of treatment courses. And our collaboration with the government has been such that we've been very transparent with them here in the United States, and we have a good relationship on future allocation." ]Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-68917619637875945682020-05-04T22:21:23.599-04:002020-05-04T22:21:23.599-04:00When Jonas Salk was questioned about who owned the...When Jonas Salk was questioned about who owned the patent on the polio vaccine, he said 'the public of course' and now we all know his name. May he rest in peace with the knowledge that a grateful world appreciated his good work.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-15633619010633449472020-05-04T18:47:48.979-04:002020-05-04T18:47:48.979-04:00There's news today that the Americans have pro...There's news today that the Americans have prohibited Gilead from selling remdesivir outside of the United States.<br /><br />The only appropriate global response is for every country with the appropriate pharmaceutical manufacturing capacity is to seize Gilead's illegitimate (intellectual) property and legitimate (physical) property then produce remdesivir domestically for release at cost.<br /><br />Formal market pricing is only an economic question for products that have not been embargoed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com