£2bn profit for Pfizer’s Covid jabs
PHARMA giant Pfizer made almost £2billion in profits from the cash-strapped NHS with its Covid jab.
The whopping mark-up is six times the amount the Government spent on its pay rise for wrung-out nurses.
Campaigners last night called for a rethink of rules which allow big companies such as Pfizer to siphon off money from a publicly funded vaccine.
The NHS paid £2.57bn to Pfizer for 135 million doses of its Covid vaccine – a £1.9bn mark-up on production cost.
The jab was just £4.94 to produce, but taxpayers were billed £18 a dose for the first 100 million jabs and £22 a dose for the next 35 million.
The profit margin is more than six times the £302m ministers allowed NHS England to spend on pay rises for its nurses.
Pharma campaigner Tim Bierley said: “The Pfizerbiontech jab was developed with huge public funding. It should belong to all of us, not used to rip off the NHS.”