Leaked Doc Revealed the Selling Prices of 6 Different COVID-19 Vaccines

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Shawn Ambrose
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If you’re a materialistic person, hearing “I love you” from your parents probably isn’t enough.

You’d tell them you’d rather receive this love in monetary form, so the more gifts they buy for you, the more they love you.

In a similar sense, we all know our governments care for us, which is why many countries, including Singapore, is administering or will give Covid-19 vaccines to its citizens for free.

Now, however, we know exactly how much they spent on these vaccines.

Leaked Doc Revealed the Selling Prices of All Promising COVID-19 Vaccines

Screenshots of a now-deleted tweet listing the prices for six of the seven vaccines purchased by the European Commission has been making the rounds on social media.

The commission declined to comment on the leak, citing confidentiality clauses with the companies involved.

Amusingly, the prices weren’t retrieved by a skilled hacker who hasn’t left his house for the last decade.

Instead, it was posted by a junior minister in Belgium’s government on Twitter.

The tweet gave a cost breakdown of six vaccines in the Commission’s portfolio.

When asked about the tweet, a spokesman for the commission said: “We cannot say anything about this”.

Gee, thanks.

“Everything that has to do with information of prices of vaccines is covered by confidentiality. This is something which is very important,” he said.

None of the spokesmen, though, denied the accuracy of the prices listed in the tweet.

That’s pretty telling in itself. 

The commission’s chief spokesman reiterated that this reticence over the Covid-19 vaccines ‘prices is contractually obligated by the companies supplying the vaccines.

Most Expensive Vaccine From Moderna

In the now-deleted tweet, the prices per dose for each vaccine producer was listed, either in either euros or US dollars, according to the respective contract.

  • AstraZeneca: €1.78
  • Johnson & Johnson: US$8.50
  • Sanofi/GlaxoSmithKline: €7.56
  • Pfizer/BioNTech: €12.00
  • Curevac: €10.00
  • Moderna: US$18.00

As you can see, the cheapest on the list is the promising coronavirus vaccine by British-Swedish company AstraZeneca, at just €1.78 (S$2.90), which is about the price of a Cai Png meal (provided you get one meat item and one vegetable).

Meanwhile, the most expensive inoculation is from the US firm Moderna, at US$18 (S$23.91), which is around the price of an extremely expensive Cai Png meal (provided you get 10 meat items and 10 vegetables).

The only vaccine on the list that has received authorisation so far –  Pfizer-BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine – cost €12 (S$19.54) a dose.

Vaccine to Arrive in Singapore By End-December

The good news is that we can continue spending obscene amounts of money on Cai Png meals because the Singapore gahmen is making Covid-19 vaccinations free for all Singaporeans and long-term residents who are currently here.

The Health Sciences Authority (HSA) recently approved Pfizer-BioNTech’s vaccine, which is already in use in Britain and the US.

The government has also signed Advance Purchase Agreements with Moderna and Sinovac, and are in discussions with a few other pharmaceutical companies.

The first batch of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines is expected to arrive in Singapore by end-December 2020.

Subsequent batches from the three companies will arrive in 2021.

Yes, astoundingly, in the same year that Singaporeans had to grapple with this deadly virus and its effects on our economy and mental health, some of us will be getting vaccinated.

The vaccination is voluntary, but strongly encouraged.

As PM Lee said: “When you get yourself vaccinated, you are not just protecting yourself. You are also doing your part to protect others, especially your loved ones.”

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