How many doses do we have of this drug?
Where is this drug made?
What’s the cost per dose?
How many doses do we have of this drug?
Where is this drug made?
What’s the cost per dose?
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ADD: how did it work for Italians?
This isn’t a cheap drug. A ‘unit’ is around $125. Just a humble guess....five-day regiment of this (if it’s like the other drugs) would be over $600.
I should note, it’s been around for 10 years, and usually for severe forms of arthritis.
I don’t know about toclizumab specifically, but “biologicals” (monoclonals that attack certain phases of the immune response, hence the -mab suffix) are expensive and produced in low volumes as Rx for rare diseases.
With regard to COVID, this agent would be useful for end-stage cytokine storm, and probably not otherwise.
Fauci will shoot it down in 3, 2, ...
I believe base on my Google-fu that the price per does is around $350