04 February 2023

By The Numbers - part the twenty seventh

So, Gov. DeMented is at it again, denying Covid mitigation (and burning books, too) sanity. One might wonder, mighten one, how much Operation Warp Speed moolah there was and where it went and what did we get for it? Recent reporting has it that Moderna (and Pfizer) intends to significantly boost the price of its vaccine.

proposed price - $130
known cost of production - $2.85
OWS to Moderna - $2.48 billion
OWS to Novavax - $1.74 billion
Pfizer opted for no 'direct' moolah, but accepted $2 billion PO
Sanofi/GSK - $2.1 billion PO
AstraZeneca - $1.2 billion PO
Merck - amount gotten, but not disclosed never finished project

total OWS deployed - $12.4 billion direct support and pre-approval purchase

how many vaccines - 3 (more or less universal) 1 (J&J, more or less restricted)

And Bancel tells us that all that Taxpayer Support is only worth a 'thank you very much', but I'll keep the reward. And you, gentle reader, might wonder why there are Progressives in the American system?

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