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When a ‘Miracle’ Drug Is Out of Reach
Trikafta’s U.S. record value is over $322,000 a 12 months. That’s practically 60 instances the annual wage of a minimal wage earner in Turkey, the place the federal government wished to import a generic model made in Argentina. Vertex sued and blocked it.
Vertex has introduced in $17 billion from Trikafta since 2019. An evaluation by researchers in Britain discovered {that a} 12 months’s provide of the drug might be manufactured for simply $5,700.
The corporate says it’s working to extend entry to the drug globally.