(Continuation from yesterday)

By the way--

How much do you think this new corona vaccination costs per dose?

I did a little research and found various prices such as 200 yen, 400 yen, 1600 yen, etc. for the cost of the vaccine itself.

If you take out the R&D and manufacturing costs and just consider the real raw material, it would probably be "free" because RNA is just a nucleic acid.

However, there is not much point in talking about such "costs".

I did a little research and found various prices such as 200 yen, 400 yen, 1600 yen, etc. for the cost of the vaccine itself.

The price of vaccines in Japan is 2,070 yen per dose, which includes the cost of medical interview, vaccination site, labor cost of the medical personnel who administer the vaccine, transportation (at very low temperature), anaphylaxis, and insurance for adverse reactions.

It is slightly cheaper than the flu.

The vaccination for the new coronavirus is fully paid for by the government (with our blood tax).

If two vaccinations are given to 126 million people, that's 521,640,000,000 yen. A lot of money, but not a surprising amount of money when I consider the entire national budget.

(I still remember Dr. Shibata's calculation of the cost of PCR testing for the entire population -- "The cost of PCR testing for the entire population: 432 billion yen per test only (less than 2 trillion yen for four tests per year).

It would probably be more cost-effective for our country to have Pfizer sell us the vaccine.

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Of course, there is a risk -- a huge risk.

To be honest, a nation that is unable to respond quickly to the "mutant strains" that are about to emerge is in serious trouble.

When I think about it, it is still "scary" if we don't have a system for manufacturing vaccines in Japan, even if we have to pay a license fee for the patent rights.