Pfizer shameful drug gouging. Republicans lied about Colony Ridge. Jordan’s out! An apartheid state?

Pfizer shows a lack of morality with its COVID-19 drug pricing. In an embarrassing double defeat, Jordan quits his Speaker’s bid. A journalist interview ends soon after she mentioned apartheid. Colony Ridge Republican attacks were lies.

Pfizer shameful drug gouging.

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• ‘For Shame’: Pfizer to Charge $1,390 for Lifesaving Covid Drug That Costs Just $13: U.S. consumer watchdog Public Citizen on Thursday excoriated Pfizer after the pharmaceutical giant announced it would more than double the price of a lifesaving Covid-19 treatment, which will soon sell for an estimated 100 times the cost of production. Pfizer said Wednesday that it will price its patented Covid treatment nirmatrelvir-ritonavir—sold under the brand name Paxlovid—at $1,390 for a five-day course. Researchers Melissa J. Barber and Dzintars Gotham recently estimated it costs Pfizer $13 to produce five days’ worth of the drug, which is taken in three-pill doses. “Pfizer’s new price is an estimated 100 times the cost of production,” Peter Maybarduk, director of Public Citizen’s Access to Medicines program, said in a statement. [More]
• Everything Republicans Said About Colony Ridge Was A Lie: Colony Ridge is no more than Jade Helm 2.0. A lie started from a hate group and ended up as political hype. As part of their xenophobic perpetuation toward asylum seekers, if you’ve listened to anything Republicans have said in the last few months, you might have heard about Colony Ridge. Right-wing media and GOP politicians have been shouting about the “undocumented safe haven” in Liberty County known as Colony Ridge. [More]
• 3rd embarrassing defeat in Congress and huge defeat in a secret GOP vote forced Jim Jordan to give up: Jim Jordan withdrew his bid to be the Speaker of the House after a crushing defeat in the wells of Congress and in a subsequent secret vote in the Republican Caucus. [More]
• Did Morning Joe shush off New Yorker journalist insinuating Israel is an apartheid state Thoughts?: The New Yorker Staff Writer Susan Glasser was asked why many countries in the West were not actively speaking out for Israel. When she mentioned Israel as an apartheid state, the interview did not continue. [More]

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