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WHY BIG PHARMA IS DEAD IN THE WATER—GET READY TO STEP-UP TO THE PLATE

WHY BIG PHARMA IS DEAD IN THE WATER—GET READY TO STEP-UP TO THE PLATE

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Apr 15, 2022
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THE WHY

  • Between 1985 and 1995, Big Pharma sold off its facilities and skilled people that created its products.

  • When less products came through, it engaged in horizontal M&A activity that cost $BNs but didn’t help—in fact, things got more complex, and most failed.

  • Then, Big Pharma focussed on rare disease, orphan indications and all things cancer—the volumes were so small, that to impress investors, it had to charge unaffordable, eye-watering prices.

  • They tried $1M per treatment with Glybera, a gene therapy; went belly up.

  • Gene therapies, when hospital costs are taken into account on top of the price tag, aren’t flying, even though it has spent $BNs buying small companies making them—another fat failure.

  • In desperation, some of them turned to gene therapy for the world’s population, commonly known as SARS-CoV-2 injections.

  • The only way to do that in the timeframe was to commit criminal fraud.

  • We know all about that now…

THE WHAT

If you believe the above (I’ve been studying and communicating t…

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