Cannon Fodder Is King

Arc 1.26

Why should Meng Zezhi dare to speak in such a tone!

To put it hard, it is based on the fact that there are 37 million AIDS patients in the world, and this is only official data.

Prior to this, the universal method of treating AIDS in the world was "cocktail therapy". The so-called cocktail therapy is actually antiviral therapy, which refers to the combination of three antiviral drugs according to a certain rule, like a cocktail in Western countries. The method used to treat AIDS. This therapy can not only prevent the reproduction of HIV, but also prevent the development of drug-resistant viruses in the patient's body.

But the curative effect of ‘cocktail therapy’ is not 100%. The patient must take the medicine for a long time and cannot be cured. Moreover, long-term medication can cause toxic side effects including lipid malnutrition, abnormal accumulation of fat in the back and abdomen, and abnormal increase in blood lipid concentration, among which the most serious are liver failure and diabetes.

Industry data shows that in 2017, the total market sales of antiviral reversal drugs was 27 billion U.S. dollars.

And this is still in some developing countries (such as India, India is the country with the largest AIDS population in Asia, and there are 5.7 million AIDS patients officially) in violation of the patent system, wantonly imitating original drugs and market intervention (including seeking market intervention financial support, subsidies) In the case of a drug manufacturer)—

This is mainly because antiretroviral drugs are scarce products and their prices are controlled by the market. Without intervention, they will definitely exceed the affordability of African countries. After all, African countries are flooded with AIDS.

Don't forget, this 27 billion US dollars is just one year's sales in 2017, if it is 10 years, 20 years... it will be a number that ordinary people can only look up to.

The profit of ordinary commodities is generally not higher than 50%. In the pharmaceutical industry, commonly used drugs, taking 2 ml of 20 mg nafopam hydrochloride injection as an example, the ex-factory price is 0.32 yuan per bottle, and the winning price is 18.49 yuan. The retail price is 21.26 yuan, which means that the intermediate profit is as high as 6500%.

And this is not alone.

In the scarce drug market, this number can be quadrupled.

Of course, the words cannot be said to be so absolute. After all, the more scarce drugs are, the higher the initial investment including drug equipment, workshops, and R&D costs will be.

The benefits of antiretroviral drugs that can prevent the virus from multiplying alone are so high. What are the market prospects for specific drugs that can cure AIDS?

Meng Zezhi initially estimated that if it is mass-produced, the cost of a set of four courses of liquid medicine should not exceed 3,000 yuan.

From the perspective of capitalists, then, as the only medicine in the world that can treat AIDS so far, a set of liquid medicines can sell for 100,000 US dollars, right?

There are 37 million AIDS patients in the world, even if only 20% of them are able to receive treatment, that is a profit of 700 billion U.S. dollars.

You know that Bill Gates' net worth is only 86 billion U.S. dollars.

As long as the AIDS vaccine is not developed in one day, will the state and social welfare organizations dare to care about the life and death of the remaining 80% of AIDS patients?

This is strangely cold-blooded, but who dares to say that this is not true.

Marx once said: "If there are 100% profits, capitalists will take risks; if there are 200% profits, capitalists will despise the law; if there are 300% profits, then capitalists will trample on everything in the world. !"