Tested positive for covid for the 2nd time yesterday. Definitely not feeling as bad as I did in January, just frustrating as I had a lot organised for the coming week.

[–] sortofblue 4 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Oh that sucks, hope you don't get too much worse. If you can, definitely take the antivirals, they can make a huge difference (just make sure you get a few packs of tic-tacs to goi with them because the main side effect is metallic dog breath for a week)

[–] Axisential 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What're the prerequisites to get the antivirals these days?

[–] sortofblue 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

60+ for pakeha, 50+ for Maori / Pacific Islander, or be classed as immuno-compromised, or your previous covid infection was severe.

I actually thought they'd loosened the criteria up but I guess not :(

[–] liv 2 points 1 year ago

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[–] Dave 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That $13 is the cost to produce, it doesn't include the $1B-$3B USD cost to develop, test, and bring a drug to market, or the sunk cost of drugs that never hit the market.

Plus companies only have 7 years before the patent expires and other companies can produce it without the R&D cost.

Also, almost no one is paying sticker price, and pharmac pays some of the lowest prices in the world for drugs.

I'm not going to argue it isn't still too much, but quoting the production cost is disingenuous because the cost of drugs is in R&D not the actual cost of prduction.

[–] sortofblue 1 points 1 year ago

The markup is obscene, for sure. I think it was only last week it was announced the price is going up to US consumers, to around $1400 for a weeks' supply. I don't know how the billionaires expect to make money off their slaves if they're all too busy dropping dead from lack of adequate healthcare.

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