Situation analysis/objectives
When the World Health Organization declared a COVID-19 pandemic on March 11, 2020, the best and brightest minds globally got to work in a concerted effort to do the impossible – create a safe, effective vaccine that would reverse COVID-19's spread and help society return to some sense of normalcy. Leading that charge toward a brighter future were Pfizer and BioNTech, which launched Phase I clinical trials on a COVID-19 vaccine in mid-March 2020.
Pfizer also faced societal challenges that could not be overcome in the lab. National polls in August and September 2020 unearthed widespread vaccine skepticism...