A former Pfizer statistician, Amit Dagar, has been sentenced to nine months in prison for insider trading. Dagar, who was based in New Jersey, was convicted by a jury for trading on confidential information regarding Pfizer's COVID-19 therapy trials. This illegal activity resulted in a profit of $272,000. The sentencing was handed down by a Manhattan federal judge, highlighting the severity of the crime involving the drugmaker's COVID-19 treatment, Paxlovid.