Pfizer says COVID vaccine generated $3.5 billion in revenue in Q1

• Pfizer's operational revenues grew by 8% in the first few months of the year.
• Also unlike some of its competitors, the company did not to take federal funds from the Trump administration's Operation Warp Speed.

The big picture: Pfizer's vaccine "is disproportionately reaching the world’s rich" the New York Times reports, citing broad figures from the World Health Organization.

• Vaccines produced by China, India and Russia have become the primary source of doses delivered to poorer nations.
• Pfizer announced Tuesday it has shipped 430 million doses of the vaccine to 91 countries and territories around the world, though it did not specify how much have gone to developing nations.