Originally Posted by
Lead Balloon
Genuine thanks, Mick.
Originally Posted by
MrScooter
Thanks for the graphs, MickG0105.
You're welcome.
Now, for the cost conscious, what I think might have been a missing element in the AstraZeneca versus Pfizer vaccine discussion - the relative costs.
Pfizer at $26 a dose is eight times the cost of AstraZeneca at $3.25 a dose. mRNA vaccines are very, very expensive to produce compared to more traditional approaches such as viral vector. That eightfold difference in cost is just the factory-gate production cost. Shipping Pfizer is two to three times more expensive than AstraZeneca due to the fact that it must be shipped frozen as opposed to just refrigerated.
When ATAGI changed the advice on AstraZeneca from for over 50 to for over 60 that cost the best part of $100 million just in swap out costs.