--- title: Pfizer Is one of the 2022 TIME100 Most Influential Companies description: Find out why Pfizer was selected for the list canonical: https://time.com/collections/time100-companies-2022/6159476/pfizer-2/ article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2022-03-30T10:23:28.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-03T00:01:26.931Z og:title: TIME100 Most Influential Companies 2022: Pfizer og:description: Find out why Pfizer is on the list og:url: https://time.com/collections/time100-companies-2022/6159476/pfizer-2/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltafbf3db8a0ca9b12/698a303b011682012a981b39/T100-Companies-T-Pfizer.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME100 Most Influential Companies 2022: Pfizer og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: TIME100 Most Influential Companies 2022: Pfizer twitter:description: Find out why Pfizer is on the list twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltafbf3db8a0ca9b12/698a303b011682012a981b39/T100-Companies-T-Pfizer.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Mar 30, 2022 # Pfizer Reducing risk by [Alice Park](https://time.com/author/alice-park/) ## Alice Park Senior Correspondent  Magali, a village nurse administers the Covid-19 vaccine to senior citizen at the Plan health center, on March 3, 2021 in Plan, Spain. The community of Aragon, Spain, is beginning to vaccinate people who cannot travel to vaccination centers with the Pfizer-BioNtech Covid-19 vaccine at their homes in rural mountain villages. Magali, a village nurse administers the Covid-19 vaccine to senior citizen at the Plan health center, on March 3, 2021 in Plan, Spain. The community of Aragon, Spain, is beginning to vaccinate people who cannot travel to vaccination centers with the Pfizer-BioNtech Covid-19 vaccine at their homes in rural mountain villages.Alvaro Calvo—Getty Images After playing a critical role in curbing COVID-19 disease with its vaccine, Pfizer and CEO Albert Bourla late last year introduced an oral antiviral therapy to treat those at highest risk of severe illness. The two-drug combination is the first pill-based corona­virus treatment in the U.S., and can reduce the risk of hospitalization or death by up to 89%. [Demand for Paxlovid](https://time.com/6159366/covid-19-drug-pharmacies-test-to-treat/), which has received emergency-use authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, will likely increase under the White House’s plan to broaden access to such therapies with its Test to Treat initiative. _A weekly newsletter featuring conversations with the world’s top CEOs, managers, and founders._ [_Join the Leadership Brief_](https://cloud.newsletters.time.com/signup?nln=leadership&source=100companies) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-companies-2022/6159476/pfizer-2/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-companies-2022/6159476/pfizer-2/"},"headline":"Pfizer","datePublished":"2022-03-30T10:23:28.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-03T00:01:26.931Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/time100-companies-2022/6159476/pfizer-2/","keywords":["TIME100 Companies","T100Companies2022","sponsorshipblock"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltafbf3db8a0ca9b12/698a303b011682012a981b39/T100-Companies-T-Pfizer.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alice Park","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/alice-park/"}],"creator":"Alice Park","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltafbf3db8a0ca9b12/698a303b011682012a981b39/T100-Companies-T-Pfizer.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-companies-2022/6159476/pfizer-2/","name":"Pfizer"}}]}] ```