COVID-19 treatments to enter the market with a hefty price tag

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4. The government, usually through NIH, will provide grants

in some cases significant ones (the Moderna effort was one in particular). But that doesn't cover the entire process nor all of the financial outlays, including general R&D, raw materials, dosing types/forms/amounts, the clinical trials, batch QAs, cost of facilities (lab space is always exorbitant per sqft), equipment/maintenance, etc.

However we also know the "free market" system here allows them to charge what they want.