The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Wednesday authorized a new COVID-19 treatment from Pfizer, the first pill to treat the virus to become available.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCAbTMI1w1Q

The pill, known as Paxlovid, is seen as a major step forward in the fight against the virus, with trials showing it reduced the risk of hospitalization or death by 89 percent in high-risk patients.

The treatment is expected to be in short supply to begin with, though, leading to calls for the Biden administration to do more to boost supply.

"Today's authorization introduces the first treatment for COVID-19 that is in the form of a pill that is taken orally — a major step forward in the fight against this global pandemic," said Patrizia Cavazzoni, director of the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. "This authorization provides a new tool to combat COVID-19 at a crucial time in the pandemic as new variants emerge and promises to make antiviral treatment more accessible to patients who are at high risk for progression to severe COVID-19."

The fact that Paxlovid is a pill, rather than previous treatments which required injections, should make it more accessible and easier to take. It has also shown very promising results in trials in reducing the worst outcomes from the virus, putting the country on the path to defanging COVID-19.

But experts are warning that supply will be constrained in the short term, and they have called on the Biden administration to take actions like enlisting other manufacturers to help make it.

The company has said about 180,000 courses will be available this year. That is not a sufficient amount given there are more than 100,000 cases of COVID-19 every day just in the U.S.

The treatment is intended to be started within five days of the onset of symptoms, which could pose a challenge. Plentiful testing will be needed to ensure that people know that they have COVID-19, and can get results in time to be able to seek the treatment.

Pfizer expects to have 120 million courses available next year, with about 30 million of those available by the beginning of next year, the company told The Washington Post.


The company has also entered into an agreement with the United Nations-backed Medicines Patent Pool to share the treatment with 95 lower-income countries, a step that experts praised.


But there is worry that production for those lower-income countries could take months to begin, and some advocates are warning of a disparity between wealthy and poor countries that took its toll on vaccine production.

joelbooks:


https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/586941-fda-authorizes-pfizer-pill-to-treat-covid-19-in-major-advance

Birikiti:
The drug isn't different from Chloroquine!

We all know that Chloroquine will not help them make the amount of money they want so a new drug (more expensive of course) has to be developed to help the pharma coys cash out

...enter Paxlovid!!!

abc115:


Nice achievement... science doing wonders...

Religious groups establishing Universities no longer believe in science, thereby exposing their hidden motive of making money

joelbooks:


https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/586941-fda-authorizes-pfizer-pill-to-treat-covid-19-in-major-advance

malcom1X:
HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE RE-PACKAGED AND CHARGE 100 times as much. With a tracking device in it.

Yes it's a Tracking device.
Click here to listen to the Pfizer boss say it himself on the
World economic forum stage

https://file.io/2O52QDJZJxY2

I am not taking it because it came from Pfizer. Plus, my survival rate is 99.99999%.

Originalsly:
Every year people are told to take a flu shot/vaccine because viruses mutate ... last year shot will no longer be effective because the virus has mutated. COVID-19 virus has long mutated to so many strains including Delta ... but because Delta was selected as the headliner for one year ... it somehow never mutated. Now it is replaced by Omicron ... brand new ... just discovered ... now being studied ... but yet Pfizer already has produced a pill to keep it in check .... a solution found before the problem is known. Anything done by Pfizer will be rubber stamped by the FDA. Their vaccine is ineffective ... why will the pill be any different?