Cost of COVID vaccine accidentally released online

 

[Rick]

Belgian secretary of state accidentally reveals EU vaccine prices​

The EU’s vaccine prices were — for a short time and by accident — finally made public.

Belgium’s Budget State Secretary Eva De Bleeker on Thursday tweeted a table with the price of each vaccine purchased by the EU and how much Belgium will spend in total on the vaccines, according to Belgian news site HLN. The tweet has since been deleted, but the outlet published a screenshot.

The European Commission has said it cannot disclose the prices paid for each coronavirus vaccine, citing commercial confidentiality agreements.

Civil society groups, MEPs and health advocates have been calling for months for the Commission to reveal how much the EU is paying, arguing that deals involving taxpayer funds should have greater transparency.

The Commission signed deals with six producers and completed exploratory talks with a seventh on Thursday. Countries will place their orders individually for each vaccine.

According to the screenshot published by HLN, the EU is spending between €1.78 and $18 per coronavirus vaccine. The price per dose listed for each of the six vaccines was as follows:

• Oxford/AstraZeneca: €1.78
• Johnson & Johnson, $8.50
• Sanofi/GSK: €7.56
• BioNTech/Pfizer: €12
• CureVac: €10
• Moderna: $18

Belgium will purchase more than 33 million vaccines for a total of €279 million.

De Bleeker said that publication of the price breakdown was “a mistake on the part of the communications team,” according to HLN.

Belgian secretary of state accidentally reveals EU vaccine prices

The information is protected by commercial confidentiality agreements.

www.politico.eu

Open Vld staatssecretaris blundert en zet prijzen coronavaccins op Twitter

De Open Vld staatssecretaris zette vandaag, per ongeluk, alle Europese aankoopprijzen voor coronavaccins op haar Twitteraccount.

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[Anderson]

How do those costs stack up against normal vaccines I wonder?

Only one of them is at cost prices too, the Oxford Vaccine. How the hell can any company be profiteering out of a supposed global pandemic?

 

[The Potato Mystic]

Runaway pandemic profiteering. I suspect the strength of the pharma lobby in a given nation is tethered to how insane the lockdown is in that nation.

 

[Schwarzkunst-Zauberlei]

there should be no state-funded hospital system in europe if someone gets ill they should just be shot in the head

 

[Anderson]

there should be no state-funded hospital system in europe if someone gets ill they should just be shot in the head

That would leave the population at zero.

 

[Schwarzkunst-Zauberlei]

That would leave the population at zero.

i mean like seriously ill or at least down-size the whole thing

 

[The Potato Mystic]

That would leave the population at zero.

"yes!"

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[jpc]

"Commercial confidentiality"
What a convenient coverall.
Can anybody explain why this is so?
Bar the obvious profiteering angle.
A government or politicians quoting commercial confidentiality .
Means something to cover up