RE: Tomorrow30 Jun 2020 23:31
On 29 June 2020, Gilead announced that it had set the price of remdesivir at US$390 per vial for the governments of developed countries, including the United States, and US$520 for U.S. private health insurance companies.[79] The expected course of treatment is six vials over five days for a total cost of US$2,340.[79] Being a repurposed drug, the minimum production cost for remdesivir is estimated at US$0.93 per day of treatment.[80] On that same day, HHS announced an unusual agreement with Gilead in which HHS agreed to Gilead's wholesale acquisition price, HHS would continue to work together with state governments and drug wholesaler AmerisourceBergen to allocate shipments of remdesivir vials to American hospitals through the end of September 2020, and in exchange, during that three-month timeframe (July, August, and September), American patients would be allocated over 90% of Gilead's projected remdesivir output of more than 500,000 treatment courses