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Early Q1 Earnings Reports Highlight Challenges And Green Shoots
Executive Summary
Recovering pharmaceutical and medical device revenues at J&J hint at the green shoots germinating from the pandemic. Roche’s COVID-19 diagnostics revenue growth was its own green shoot, but can these be maintained as the pandemic evolves?
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