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not to mention they'd need to be making around 8 million tablets an hour just to cover the cost of one employee for that hour, at minimum wage (if my maths are right, which given the time may not be the case).Those figures sound like complete nonsense, a £1 billion r&d cost would mean they got revenues of £100 trillion which is 50 times the entire GDP of the UK.
It wouldn't cover the cost of actually running the plant machinery and a single employee, let alone R&D and the full facility and I also doubt the UK gets through several hundred million antibiotics a day.
I suspect even something as common place, out of patent, simple to produce and used as widely as paracetamol doesn't cost that little to produce (at that sort of price the tablets would be cheaper to produce than a plain card box to put them in loosely).
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