Pfizer's revenue from the Covid vaccine alone in 2021 and 2022 was around $72 billion. Profits more than doubled from around $9B in 2020 to around $22B in 2021. I suspect 2022 was similar. And they are making money from treatments. Pfizer garnered about $19B in revenue from Paxlovid, the antiviral pill, in 2022.
That's just Pfizer.
Big Pharma was absolutely driven by money to get their vaccines out the door first. I would argue thinking these companies were working double time to create the vaccines first for reasons other than money is silly.
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