3 Areas Where Pfizer Is Crushing Moderna
Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) and Moderna (NASDAQ: MRNA) have been marching in lockstep for nearly a year. They both announced the start of phase 3 trials for their coronavirus vaccine candidates on the same day last July. Pfizer won Emergency Use Authorization for its vaccine only about a week ahead of Moderna. And the U.S. ordered 300 million doses from each company earlier in the year. That was enough to vaccinate almost the entire population.
It's fair to say both of these companies today are leading the coronavirus vaccine market. Still, Pfizer has inched ahead in a couple of ways. It has fully vaccinated more Americans than Moderna so far. And recently, it scored an order for as many as 1.8 billion doses from the European Union through 2023. That's in addition to an earlier order. But that's not all. There are three other areas where Pfizer is beating Moderna...
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