The pharma giant’s UK chief is adding the company’s voice to scientists’ warnings of the dangers of antibacterial resistance
The scale of our intervention on Covid has never been seen before. It was $2bn when you don’t know if you have any revenuesTo date, Pfizer has shipped 4.4bn vaccine doses to 181 countries. The firm invested $2bn in research and development before regulatory approval, so without a guaranteed return. But it has since raked in $75bn in vaccine sales , triggering. Its stock has risen more than 60% since March 2020, to value it at $248bn.
The firm remains in the crosshairs: last month its chief executive, Albert Bourla, was interrogated as he walked through snow in Davos over Pfizer’s vaccine venture. Rienow, whose father was a heart surgeon, was born one of seven siblings in North Carolina and moved around the US before starting her career consulting in Boston for companies including Pfizer. Before long, she moved in-house at its New York HQ and then to Belgium, Japan, Australia, South Korea and the UK, where she landed in 2015.
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