{"id":4241,"date":"2023-08-01T19:18:43","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T00:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=4241"},"modified":"2023-08-01T19:25:11","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T00:25:11","slug":"pfizer-2q-numbers-tumble-and-covid-19-vaccine-treatment-sales-dry-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/08\/01\/pfizer-2q-numbers-tumble-and-covid-19-vaccine-treatment-sales-dry-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Pfizer 2Q numbers tumble and COVID-19 vaccine, treatment sales dry up"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2023\/08\/01\/pfizer-covid-comirnaty-paxlovid\/d2815f1a-308a-11ee-85dd-5c3c97d6acda_story.html\">Washington Post<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Crumbling COVID-19 vaccine and treatment sales chopped Pfizer\u2019s second-quarter earnings, but both the drugmaker and Wall Street expect a rebound in the back half of 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pfizer recorded no U.S. sales of its treatment,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/covid-19-paxlovid-approval-fda-pill-ba9ef641ade46c24ad4c385cdf8bcef9\">Paxlovid<\/a>, in the recently completed quarter, as the company shifts to selling the pills on the commercial market after contracting with the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Paxlovid brought in only $143 million total sales during the quarter after recording $8 billion in last year\u2019s quarter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sales of the vaccine Comirnaty also slid 83% to $1.49 billion in the quarter, as both products fell short of Wall Street expectations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both Pfizer\u2019s leaders and analysts who follow the company had expected a sales drop in the quarter as inventories already on the market were used up. But they also expect a rebound later this year, as commercial<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Post Crumbling COVID-19 vaccine and treatment sales chopped Pfizer\u2019s second-quarter earnings, but both the drugmaker and Wall Street expect a rebound in the back half of 2023. Pfizer recorded no U.S. sales of its treatment,&nbsp;Paxlovid, in the recently completed quarter, as the company shifts to selling the pills on the commercial market after contracting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vaccine-headlines"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4242,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4241\/revisions\/4242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}