06.06.2024 | Tracker
Top 50 Pharma Tracker: eHCPs celebrate AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine in light of withdrawal
By Aman Jandu The Top 50 Pharmaceutical Companies mentioned by eHCPs on X
| May Rank | April Rank | Company Name | Total Mentions | Account Mentions | Account Retweets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Pfizer | 3,058 | 309 | 8 |
| 2 | 3 | AstraZeneca | 2,993 | 360 | 8 |
| 3 | 2 | Moderna | 1,509 | 118 | 52 |
| 4 | 4 | Johnson & Johnson | 799 | 176 | 2 |
| 5 | 12 | Novo Nordisk | 517 | 299 | 43 |
| 6 | 5 | GSK | 464 | 164 | 17 |
| 7 | 6 | Abbott | 315 | 306 | 17 |
| 8 | 7 | Bayer | 241 | 50 | 5 |
| 9 | 8 | Roche | 219 | 87 | 25 |
| 10 | 14 | Sanofi | 195 | 113 | 6 |
| 11 | 10 | Novavax | 191 | 14 | 3 |
| 12 | 11 | Gilead Sciences | 189 | 70 | 3 |
| 13 | 9 | BioNTech | 175 | 14 | 1 |
| 14 | 13 | Novartis | 153 | 100 | 6 |
| 15 | 15 | Lilly | 124 | 87 | 0 |
| 16 | 23 | Otsuka | 115 | 8 | 0 |
| 17 | 16 | AbbVie | 110 | 63 | 11 |
| 18 | 19 | Takeda | 102 | 92 | 0 |
| 19 | 17 | Merck & Co | 100 | 50 | 5 |
| 20 | 18 | BMS | 83 | 66 | 2 |
| 21 | 21 | Amgen | 63 | 28 | 1 |
| 22 | 26 | Regeneron | 51 | 29 | 1 |
| 23 | 20 | Servier | 50 | 26 | 21 |
| 24 | 25 | Fresenius | 48 | 39 | 7 |
| 25 | 32 | Menarini | 43 | 27 | 10 |
| 26 | 27 | Organon | 40 | 5 | 0 |
| 27 | 36 | UCB | 39 | 30 | 17 |
| 28 | 29 | Biogen | 37 | 15 | 0 |
| 29 | 22 | Boehringer Ingelheim | 34 | 22 | 0 |
| 30 | 24 | Daiichi Sankyo | 30 | 18 | 6 |
| 31 | 37 | Astellas | 28 | 10 | 0 |
| 32 | 34 | Ipsen | 27 | 14 | 1 |
| 33 | 34 | Eisai | 25 | 3 | 1 |
| 34 | 42 | Merck KGaA | 23 | 20 | 9 |
| 35 | 33 | Teva | 21 | 14 | 0 |
| 36 | 29 | Viatris | 15 | 0 | 0 |
| 37 | 38 | Bausch | 12 | 1 | 0 |
| 38 | 41 | Jazz Pharmaceuticals | 11 | 5 | 1 |
| 39 | 28 | Vertex | 9 | 9 | 0 |
| 40 | 29 | CSL | 7 | 7 | 1 |
| 41 | 43 | Chugai | 6 | 5 | 5 |
| 42 | 50 | Horizon | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| 43 | 38 | Grifols | 4 | 1 | 0 |
| 44 | 38 | Incyte | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| 45 | 44 | Sun | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 50 | 44 | Perrigo | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 50 | 46 | CSPC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 50 | 50 | Shanghai | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 50 | 50 | Sino | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 50 | 50 | Jiangsu Hengrui | 0 | 0 | 0 |
May’s insights from eHCPs mentioning the Top 50 Pharmaceutical Companies
The five pharmaceutical companies mentioned the most by eHCPs on X in May 2024 were Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson and GSK.
CREATION.co identified 10,911 eHCP mentions of pharmaceutical companies in May 2024, increasing by 34.6% over the previous month.
On 01 May, eHCPs shared the news of the release of the new “Cardiovascular Outcomes Assessment of the MitraClip Percutaneous Therapy” (COAPT) Risk Score – an app which is designed to calculate the risk of death/hospitalisation in patients with heart failure. eHCPs at Mount Sinai School of Medicine thanked Abbott for their support in developing the app.
#COAPT score App is out on @Apple for FREE download! From @JACCJournals paper this allows you calculate risk of ☠️🏥 with or without M-TEER in SMR. #Mitraclip Congrats @DoctorKini @GreggWStone @NeerajShahMD et al + @AbbottCardio for support. @LucySafi @KHERA_MD @ParasuramMD https://t.co/QYcKcMeN6c
— Dr. Gilbert Tang (@GilbertTangMD) May 1, 2024
Shared by 5 eHCPs
On 10 May, eHCPs discussed the decision for AstraZeneca to withdraw its COVID-19 vaccine. Despite no longer being available, eHCPs such as Christina Pagel in this nine-part thread celebrated the vaccine for its efficacy, cost-effectiveness and saving lives globally.
Quick thread on the Astra Zeneca (AZ) covid vaccine since it's been in the news today.
TLDR there isn't a new "smoking gun", the AZ vax was one of first and cheapest, it saved millions of lives globally, there are better vax out there now, adapted to new variants 1/9
— Prof. Christina Pagel (@chrischirp) May 8, 2024
Shared by 83 eHCPs
On 22 May, eHCPs shared videos and articles from European news outlets reporting on a fire at Novo Nordisk’s headquarters in Copenhagen. Some eHCPs shared that this was the second fire that Novo Nordisk has faced within a week.
A Novo Nordisk facility in Denmark has caught fire, the second time in a week that the pharmaceutical giant has been hit by a blaze https://t.co/2mlOzk7sTj via @markets
— Ravi Ratna (@medical91) May 23, 2024
Medical Doctor
The top shared links by eHCPs when mentioning a Top 50 pharma company discussed:
- A blog post by Moderna celebrating Long-COVID Awareness Day.
- A news article discussing the withdrawal of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine.
- An academic poster developed by American Society of Echocardiography in collaboration with BMS around Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy imaging.
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Methodology notes:
- In May 2024, CREATION Pinpoint® identified 10,911 posts on X (Twitter) from 4,156 individual eHCPs mentioning a Top 50 Pharmaceutical company (based on revenue).
- Data for this research was analysed from the online X conversations of eHCPs in all languages mentioning a Top 50 Pharmaceutical company between 01 – 31 May 2024.
- Unless otherwise specified, mentions of a company are not limited to its X account(s).
- In some cases, a post may mention more than one company account (e.g. @abbottnews and @abbottglobal) – this only counts as one Company Mention and Account Mention.
- Johnson & Johnson was included as a whole, encompassing its pharmaceutical subsidiary, Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine (previously Janssen). In May 2024, 83 of these posts mentioned Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine or Janssen.
