NorthWest Biotherapeutics Inc (NWBO)

[Doktornolittle]

Maybe that $180M was already contracted for design + tooling/infastructure etc for the ramp-up in mfg. And of course a small part of that would go to regular old production of the vaccine.

I agree that $180M is an absolutely enormous amount of money and should concern anyone invested. I agree that it is almost an order of magnitude larger than what could have been spent on making the vaccine for the trials, so anybody who thought that is where it was going was out on a very thin limb.

But I have decided to rationalize the enormous expenditures as part of the enormous cost for a production ramp-up. Ie for further automation as well as expansion.

I don't know that such could cost $180M (or most of that), I just know that the costs for that kind of design work and subsequent tooling and V&V are uuuuuuuuuuuge! So it is conceivable from my perspective.