When a life-saving vaccine became a cash cow: Pfizer now projects $33.5B in Covid-19 vaccine sales in 2021 alone
As Pfizer saves the world right now with its vaccine, that help isn’t coming without a massive payday for the Big Pharma — $33.5 billion in 2021 sales is now the projection.
If Pfizer actually hits that projection (up from $26 billion in sales the company predicted in May), the company will be both hailed as a victor and one of very few reasons why the virus could be kept at bay for even a sliver of time, and as a profiteer, no matter how much governments around the world have saved with the use of the vaccine — Pfizer may potentially haul in the greatest single year’s worth of a pharmaceutical or vaccine’s sales ever.
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