Higher interest rates and plunging growth forecasts have been the economic fallout from inflation that has been elevated throughout some of 2021, all of 2022, and all this year so far. Given the essential nature of the goods and services provided by the healthcare sector, it is arguably one of the more durable economic sectors. Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) is probably best known today for its COVID-19 vaccine, Comirnaty, which it co-owns with BioNTech, and the COVID-19 antiviral treatment Paxlovid.