Alegrias1
I understand that Astra Zeneca aren't going to make a profit from their vaccine until the pandemic is declared over, is that right?
Does big Pharma ever act out of altruism? Loss leaders and kudos, surely?
I don't know any of the answers, I'm really asking
I will run that past my daughter?. She has mentioned altruism in the past. I’ll ask her what and who.
Pharmaceuticals are companies just like every other company, but their overheads must be enormous given the R&D the infrastructure and the high cost of employees, who are highly skilled and usually with a PhD at that level. But then you have the production staff, the quality control is intensive, with scientist from countries to which they are exporting auditing the quality control etc. on a regular basis.
It would seem that they have costs not incurred by the average company.