Belgium’s consumer minister posted on Twitter a list of how much the EU should pay for corona vaccines. Her tweet quickly disappeared again.
What does it really cost to buy from the big pharmaceutical companies that have been throwing huge resources for months after developing a vaccine against coronavirus?
That question has so far not been easy to answer, as purchase prices of corona vaccines have been kept secret, while countries around the world have been securing enough medicine to curb the pandemic as soon as possible.
But on Friday, something happened that gave a rare insight into the prices of vaccines from the various pharmaceutical companies.
Belgium’s Minister for Economic Affairs and Consumer Affairs Eva de Bleeker took to Twitter to post the price list for all vaccines that her country is negotiating to buy through the EU.
The minister’s tweet was quickly deleted again, but by then it was already too late.
The Internet never forgets, and pictures of the minister’s price list quickly began to appear on Twitter and other social media.
That is why we now know that the EU’s purchase prices per dose of vaccine from the various pharmaceutical companies look like this.
- Oxford / Astrazeneca: 1.78 euros (13.24 kroner)
- Johnson & Johnson: 8,50 dollars (51,59 kroner)
- Sanofi / GSK: 7.56 euros (56.24 kroner)
- Curevac: 10 euros (74.40 kroner)
- Pfizer / Biontech: 12 euros (89.28 kroner)
- Modern: $ 18 ($ 109.24)
The vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna, which are at the forefront of the approval process, are also proving to be the most expensive. Each person must take two doses for the vaccines to work – thus the prices must also be multiplied by two to arrive at what it actually costs to buy a vaccine for a single person.
