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Cracks in the fa­cade: Is phar­ma's pan­dem­ic ‘feel good fac­tor’ wan­ing?

The dis­cor­dant ef­fects of the Covid-19 pan­dem­ic on phar­ma rep­u­ta­tion con­tin­ues. While the over­all in­dus­try still re­tains a re­spectable ha­lo from its Covid-19 quick re­sponse and lead­er­ship, a new pa­tient group study re­veals a dif­fer­ent sto­ry emerg­ing in the de­tails.

On one hand, US pa­tient ad­vo­ca­cy groups rat­ed the in­dus­try high­er-than-ever over­all. More than two-thirds (67%) of groups gave the in­dus­try a thumbs up for 2021, a whop­ping 10 per­cent­age point in­crease over the year be­fore, ac­cord­ing to the Pa­tientView an­nu­al study, now in its 9th year.

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