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The era of free Covid vaccines in the US may be coming to an end, and pharmaceutical companies like Moderna are considering a price of $110 to $130 per jab, the Wall Street Journal reports .
That’s more than four times the cost the government was paying for the treatments under federal contracts.
“In other words, you propose to make the vaccine unaffordable for the residents of this country who made the production of the vaccine possible,” he continued.
“This leaves the nation stuck in a cycle of panic and neglect,” the Washington Post editorial board argued last week.
Noubar Afeyan, co-founder and board chair of Moderna, defended the ongoing shift to commercialisation. »