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I feel the fake news fading away. The veil is lifted from my eyes. Yeah.
So let's talk about a few things. So as you know, the drug remdesivir has reportedly shown some promise in reducing the virus, but there's no report or no evidence that it reduces death rate. But we're still pretty darn excited about this drug that doesn't change the death rate. But I wonder, how much would this drug cost? Well, that estimate I saw, I don't know if this is still the case, would be a thousand dollars per patient. So a thousand dollars for remdesivir.
You know, I wonder if that's enough money that it would just potentially corrupt the system. Is that much? A thousand dollars per customer times all the people who would need it. Seven point six billion people in the world, but you don't need to vaccinate them all. Let's say, I don't know, let's say you do four billion. Le
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t's say you vaccinate four billion. How much profit? Well, not profit, but how much gross revenue is that if you vaccinate four billion people at a thousand dollars a piece? Well, let me do the math for you. Or actually allow me to have someone do the math for me. Alexa, what is four billion times a thousand? Four billion is four trillion. Four trillion dollars. Has there ever been any product or…
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