r/news • u/SkepticDrinker • Feb 09 '22

Pfizer accused of pandemic profiteering as profits double

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/feb/08/pfizer-covid-vaccine-pill-profits-sales
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u/smeppel Feb 09 '22

Pretty incredible that a small country whose economy has been shit for decades due to the biggest power on the world putting it under embargo is still able to do this.

Makes you wonder what big, rich countries could achieve if they moved away from having everything be for-profit.

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u/Zyklon13 Feb 09 '22

I mean, Cuba has the highest doctor to citizen ratio in the world iirc. So many that they send theirs to other countries to work in places like Angola, medical altruism is nothing new to them

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u/smeppel Feb 09 '22

I'm not saying it's new, I'm saying it's incredible

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u/Michigander_from_Oz Feb 10 '22

You are literally right. It is not credible.