Every month, CREATION.co’s tracking updates bring you the latest insights from the conversation of healthcare professionals (HCPs) across the globe discussing product launches. Discover which new drug approvals HCPs are talking about, what they think about them, and which online sources they are using to inform their opinions and conversations in CREATION.co’s latest tracking update.
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Throughout September 2021 we tracked the global conversations of 3774 HCPs who posted 6119 English-language Twitter posts about the launches and approvals of new products.
After the significant spike in conversation amongst HCPs last month due to the FDA approval of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, conversation levels in September had returned to their usual levels. The product HCPs were most vocal about this month continued to be the Pfizer vaccine, as they advocated for the uptake of the vaccine following its full FDA approval last month and discussed the decision around the approval of the booster shot for those over 65, but not for all those over 16. Alongside this discussion, HCPs also made positive comments on the FDA’s approval of Takeda’s Exkivity (mobocertinib) treatment, as well as Merck’s Keytruda (pembrolizumab).
Within the discussion around the FDA’s Pfizer vaccines approval, HCPs amplified the President’s call for the public to get vaccinated now that the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine after its full approval last month, retweeting it 162 times. They also drew attention to James Surowiecki’s tweet noting that Regeneron’s antibody cocktail for COVID-19 had not yet reached FDA approval, whilst the vaccine was fully approved.
https://twitter.com/Clinpathman/status/1439363436660600834
My message to unvaccinated Americans is this: What more is there to wait for? What more do you need to see?
We have made the vaccinations free, safe, and convenient. The vaccine has FDA approval. Over 200 million Americans have gotten at least one shot.
Do the right thing.
— President Biden (@POTUS) September 10, 2021
Many other HCPs also added their own voice to this discussion, supporting the use of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine ahead of the Rengeron treatment.
https://twitter.com/jsdpharmd/status/1439195440608595971
https://twitter.com/DoctorRobin/status/1438830750187491330
Though the level of HCP engagement around the FDA approvals of Takeda’s (mobocertinib) was lower than that around the Pfizer vaccine, those who commented spoke positively about the drug. Exkivity was heralded as a great step forward for patients with (EGFR) Exon 20 Insertion and non-small cell lung cancers (NSCLC) and HCPs were impressed with the innovation.
Mobocertinib (TAK-788) granted FDA approval for patients with EGFR Exon 20 mutations who have received prior platinum-based chemotherapy. Nice to have an oral treatment option for this disease! https://t.co/jFpNV9jDfE
— Ryan Gentzler, MD (@ryangentzler) September 16, 2021
Mobocertinib now approved for EGFR exon 20 insertions after platinum-based chemotherapy. Great to have more options for our patients! @DFEGFRcenterhttps://t.co/ZxhKlTguj3
— Mark Awad (@DrMarkAwad) September 15, 2021
The three most shared links from HCPs discussing product launches in June were:
- An FDA article about Why you should not use ivermectin to treat or prevent COVID-19.
- A Takeda article about The FDA approval of EXKIVITY™ (mobocertinib) as the First Oral Therapy Specifically Designed for Patients with EGFR Exon20 Insertion + NSCLC
- A Healio article about The FDA granting breakthrough therapy designation to empagliflozin for HFpEF
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Methodology
- Using CREATION Pinpoint® the English-language Twitter conversations of HCPs globally discussing new pharmaceutical product launches and drug approvals between 1 June and 30 June 2021 were analysed in order to discover which new product launches HCPs are discussing as well as #WhatHCPsThink.
- Mentions of drug approvals by the FDA, EMA, NICE, and CHMP were included in the data, as well as mentions of ‘drug approval’ by HCPs in their Twitter conversations.
- Between 01 June and 30 June 2021, there were 5,596 HCP mentions of new pharmaceutical product launches and drug approvals from 3,471 unique HCP authors from around the world.