Laura I looked up the expenditures of these two companies and they have spent hundreds of millions of dollars over the course of their existence (but NOT tens of billions). I will be extremely generous and say the R&D for this product was a billion dollars. Hey, let's throw in another billion to cover all of their other expenses to date.Manufacturing will be an additional expense. I will be overly generous and imagine a facility that might employ a few hundred people (or fewer?). Let's say the cost is a billion dollars to manufacture a 100,000 doses. Let's throw in another billion for marketing and other incidentals.My overly generous estimate of expenses still means that 100 billion in sales will generate 96 billion of pure profit. This is just the U.S. market; true profits will be much higher when the rest of the world is taken into account. This is how I define "profit".

Laura I looked up the expenditures of these two companies and they have spent hundreds of millions of dollars over the course of their existence (but NOT tens of billions). I will be extremely generous and say the R&D for this product was a billion dollars. Hey, let's throw in another billion to cover all of their other expenses to date.Manufacturing will be an additional expense. I will be overly generous and imagine a facility that might employ a few hundred people (or fewer?). Let's say the cost is a billion dollars to manufacture a 100,000 doses. Let's throw in another billion for marketing and other incidentals.My overly generous estimate of expenses still means that 100 billion in sales will generate 96 billion of pure profit. This is just the U.S. market; true profits will be much higher when the rest of the world is taken into account. This is how I define "profit".

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