Pandemics are Good for Business
You’re thinking PANIC (that’s what the media and the government keep saying) but any right-minded corporation has got to be thinking PAYDAY:
Americans are still debating whether to roll up their sleeves for a swine flu shot, but companies have already figured it out: vaccines are good for business.
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As always with pandemic flus, taxpayers are footing the $1.5 billion check for the 250 million swine flu vaccines that the government has ordered so far and will be distributing free to doctors, pharmacies and schools.
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Drugmakers pocket most of the revenues from flu sales, with Sanofi-Pasteur, Glaxo Smith Kline and Novartis cornering most of the market.
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“Flu shots present a good opportunity to bring new customers into our stores,” says Cassie Richardson, spokesperson for SUPERVALU, one of the country’s largest supermarket chains. Drawing customers to the back of a store, where pharmacies are often located, offers retailers a chance to pitch products that might otherwise go unnoticed.
- Drugmakers, Doctors Rake in Billions Battling H1N1 Flu
by Dahlia Fahmy
2009-10-14
Who wants a piece of the pie?
- GLAXOSMITHKLINE
- SANOFI-AVENTIS
- NOVARTIS
- ASTRAZENECA
- SINOVAC
- CSL
- BAXTER
- SOLVAY
- GREEN CROSS
- HUALAN BIOLOGICAL
- INOVIO BIOMEDICAL
- NOVAVAX
- Who is Manufacturing the Swine Flu Vaccine?
PharmaManufacturing.com
2009-09-03
Will we have 20/20 hindsight… this time?
I am a little more adamant in my viewpoints than my wife is because I asked – told – Judy to take the shot. She wasn’t going to take it and she never had had shots… and I’m mad at my government because they had the facts, but they didn’t release those facts because if they had released them then people wouldn’t have taken it.
They can come out tomorrow and tell me there’s going to be an epidemic and they can drop off like flies next to me – I will not take another shot that my government tells me to take.
- Mr. Roberts at time signature 13:42
Ready for another go?
My apologies if you’ve heard entirely enough of this nasty swine flu pandemic business – this issue pulls some strings with me because it is gravely obvious that there is more to the agenda than public health… (if it works out to be nothing more than a mad cash-grab on the part of pharma corporations that’s hardly the worst possibility)
I promise that this will be the last time I mention H1N1 until there is something new to say about this iteration of pharmaceuticals, lies, and media-induced hysteria (which is not to say something that hasn’t been said before – 1976′s instance seems to have been covered thoroughly).
Update: T+27D
Good for everybody’s business, apparently…
Affiliates to the Partnerka pharmaceutical Websites earn on average $16,000 per day — that’s almost $16 million a year. And if that figure is making your eyes pop out, then realize this: Some of the bad guys boast they are making a breathtaking $100,000 a day.
What’s been interesting this year is that we’ve seen many of the spammers switch from focusing their main attention on folks seeking Cialis and Viagra to promote Tamiflu instead.
As fears rise about a Swine Flu outbreak, many people have turned to the Net hoping to find medications.
- Earn $16,000 A Day Promoting Fake Pharmaceutical Websites
by Graham Cluley
2009-11-16 06:08
