How can you accuse them of profiteering when they donated their entire stockpile? Seems weird, no?
How can you accuse me of accusing them of profiteering - I just pointed out the projected costs...donating the entire stock, at this juncture, is a super exhibition of goodwill and an astute business move but I wouldn’t expect that to be a long-term strategy. If it turns out to be as effective as one might hope, then it is smart to get enough out there to give it a good test...part of normal R&D costs for any new drug.
400,000 doses is a drop in the bucket compared to the number of doses that will be purchased full retail should it become the drug of choice.
This marketing technique is a form of seeding. Kind of like chumming the waters.
“How can you accuse them of profiteering when they donated their entire stockpile? Seems weird, no?”
So, I’m seeing you more as a checkers player... than as a chess player. Do you think Costco is just giving out all that free food because they are really nice guys?
Because that’s a joke to the many many many billions they will make off of this.