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Pfizer Says COVID-19 Pill Almost 90% Effective Preventing Severe Illness, Death<\/a><\/p>\n

Pharma company Pfizer announced on Friday that its experimental, antiviral COVID-19 treatment pill Paxlovid showed during testing that it’s almost 90% effective in preventing hospitalization and death in high-risk patients.<\/p>\n

The company said when combined with a low dose of ritonavir and taken within five days of the onset of symptoms, it cut severe illness and death attributed to the coronavirus by 89%.<\/p>\n

“Today’s news is a real game-changer in the global efforts to halt the devastation of this pandemic,” Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said in a statement.<\/p>\n

“These data suggest that our oral antiviral candidate if approved or authorized by regulatory authorities has the potential to save patients’ lives, reduce the severity of COVID-19 infections, and eliminate up to 9 out of 10 hospitalizations.”<\/p>\n

Pfizer said it’s now requesting emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration, which would allow it to be distributed nationwide. If authorized, Pfizer’s would be the first COVID-19 treatment tablet on the market.<\/p>\n

Paxlovid joins a coronavirus treatment drug from Merck, molnupiravir, in the federal review category. Regulators are presently assessing molnupiravir for emergency authorization, and British regulators authorized the Merck drug on Thursday.<\/p>\n

“We have remained laser-focused on the science and fulfilling our responsibility to help healthcare systems and institutions around the world while ensuring equitable and broad access to people everywhere,” Bourla added.<\/p>\n

Pfizer said its double-blind study examined a group of non-hospitalized, high-risk adults with COVID-19. In the trial, just six of more than 600 volunteers were hospitalized after taking Paxlovid — compared to 41 of 612 who were given a placebo.<\/p>\n

Pfizer said no volunteer who took Paxlovid during the trial died, compared to 10 from the placebo group who did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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