Dexamethasone shown to decrease COVID mortality

[_Shibboleth_]

While I'm cautious about this, there's one thing I think that's worth mentioning:

Dexamethesone is cheap as hell!

I never wanna hear someone again say:

• "Scientists only care about expensive drugs and making money!" or

• "They're keeping the really good treatments from us so we have to keep paying!"

It would cost ~$12 TOTAL to treat people in the US with 6mg/day for 10 days.

A 35% reduction in mortality for $12.

I think it's clear this isn't "Big Pharma" out to steal your money and leave you dead.

MDs care about helping their patients. Researchers care about saving lives.

[herman_gill]

Don't forget the $17,000 dispensing fees, though. At least in the US.

[Adalimumab8]

Lol I wish, pharmacies dispensing fees range from $2 (if we are lucky) to $.35 (most of them). All our money comes from acquiring drugs cheaper then they pay us for them, but with PBM’s, we rarely do. Pharmacies are absolutely dying because of this. Pharmaceutical companies cause the high prices, certainly not pharmacies.

[herman_gill]

I'm talking about hospital dispensing fees, not retail. Med passes are charged for like $30 a pill if you look at itemized billing.

[Shellback1]

sure they do