re: Pfizer earned $3.5 billion on COVID vaccine in first quarter

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As for the guaranteed dose thing, yeah it's beneficial for sure. However, if the trial failed, they'd have to dump all those doses and eat all the R&D costs as well.

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I'm going by memory and am not pretending to be an expert. I don't follow Pfizer - but, didn't they partner up with someone that had already developed a platform for the vaccine? I seem to remember reading about how they weren't risking much at all.

I think it's pretty reasonable to take issue with the "COVID economy" - government definitely stepped in and picked winners and losers, and that meant Amazon/Pfizer made huge bank while hundreds of thousands of small and medium-sized businesses struggled. I think criticism of Pfizer (in this instance) is a general comment about the loss of the free market/competitive capitalism we all once believed in.

And don't forget, we're talking about a vaccine that a ton of us have no use for while gov't, medicine, media, etc., try to cram it down our throats.