Pfizer expects to hike U.S. COVID vaccine price to $110-$130 per dose
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/pfizer-expects-price-covid-vaccine-110-130-per-dose-2022-10-20/
Pfizer executive Angela Lukin
Pfizer Inc expects to roughly quadruple vaccine price,
to about $110 to $130 per dose,
after the United States government’s current purchase program expires,
U.S. government currently pays around $30 per dose to Pfizer and German partner BioNTech
Pfizer
Expects the COVID-19 market to be about the size of the flu shot market
Tim Gough, 55, Radio Suffolk
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/10/24/radio-dj-dies-halfway-hosting-breakfast-show/
Excess deaths in the young
https://app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrIjoiYmUwNmFhMjYtNGZhYS00NDk2LWFlMTAtOTg0OGNhNmFiNGM0IiwidCI6ImVlNGUxNDk5LTRhMzUtNGIyZS1hZDQ3LTVmM2NmOWRlODY2NiIsImMiOjh9
US data
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm#data-tables
US, all ages
https://usmortality.com/deaths/excess-cumulative/united-states
Tragic young death
https://nypost.com/2022/10/08/rep-sean-casten-reveals-teen-daughter-died-from-cardiac-arrhythmia/
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/illinois-rep-sean-casten-reveals-teenage-daughter-died-cardiac-arrhythmia
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11294477/Illinois-Rep-Sean-Casten-reveals-healthy-teenage-daughter-died-cardiac-arrhythmia.html
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/adverse-events.html
Gwen Casten, 17, died peacefully in her sleep in June,
after eating dinner with her parents and then going out with friends for a few hours.
(Congressman Rep. Sean Casten)
Democrat’s statement
She had just come home from an evening with friends, went to bed and didn’t wake up
The Castens
This past June, our daughter, Gwen Casten, died of a sudden cardiac arrythmia.
In layman’s terms, she was fine, and then her heart stopped
healthy 2022 teenager
fully vaccinated
and had tested positive for COVID-19 more than once in recent months,
but never experienced symptoms.
She had a big, beautiful, kind, loving heart. And it stopped, as all must
China, 20th party congress
President Xi Jinping
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/14/chinas-communist-party-congress-everything-you-need-to-know
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-63112996
No immediate loosening of zero-Covid strategy
Zero-Covid, people’s war to stop the spread of the virus
Recent weeks
Tens of millions, confined home
60 towns and cities
Dynamic zero-Covid, linked to Mr Xi
Strict lockdowns, mass testing, constant scanning of health codes, travel restrictions
Trains out of Xinjiang suspended
Roadblocks
Widespread reports, food and medicine
Quarantine centres, family separations
IDs linked to health code apps
No vaccine compulsion
(Local vaccines only)
Professor Liang Wannian, government Covid expert panel
Zero-Covid might come to an end?
It’s hard to say
Because one thing I am sure of is, we won’t kill the virus any time soon.
We’re waiting for more effective medicines and more effective vaccines.