Pfizer and BioNTech Announce Vaccine Candidate Against COVID-19 Achieved Success in First Interim Analysis from Phase 3 Study. - Themenbild,Symbolfoto:Corona Impfstoff. Pfizer und BioNTech geben erfolgreiche erste Zwischenanalyse ihres COVID-19-Impfstoffkandidaten in laufender Phase-3-Studie bekannt. Einwegspritze mit Impfstoff zur Injektion mit einer Kanuele. BIONTECH Biotechnologie Unternehmen. (Photo by ddp images/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images)
Pfizer will earn $15 billion from sales of its Coronavirus vaccine developed in collaboration with BioNTech.
The American pharmaceutical company forecasts $59.4 billion and $61.4 billion revenue in 2021 and expects a quarter of its total revenue this year to come from the sales of its COVID-19 vaccine.
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During an interview, CEO Pfizer, Albert Bourla, said that the company is on track to produce 2 billion doses of Coronavirus vaccines this year which will see it earn $15 billion.
We’ve increased the batches we run per week, we’ve doubled the output – the yield per batch – we’ve dramatically improved our success rates, we’ve made process improvements to the assembly lines.
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Albert Bourla added that Pfizer could exceed the $15 billion mark if the company signs more supply contracts.
Besides, Pfizer has launched a study to determine whether a third dose of its mRNA-based Coronavirus vaccine, administered 6-12 months after the first two doses which are injected three weeks apart, can increase the immunity against the more infectious variants of Coronavirus reported across the world.