Current Events > Pfizer says pill is effective in protecting against severe disease from COVID-19

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The experimental antiviral pill Paxlovid is also effective against the Omicron variant that is spreading rapidly across the world, the company announced, citing laboratory testing.

In clinical trials, Paxlovid showed almost 90% efficacy in preventing hospitalization and death in high-risk patients, Pfizer stated, replicating the results of a smaller-scale trial announced last month.

Those results prompted the company to seek authorization from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the pill to become the first widely available oral medicine to combat coronavirus.

Regulators in the UK last month approved the twice-daily pill Molnupiravir, manufactured by Merck/Ridgeback, for use in elderly and at-risk patients, but its approval has stalled in the US amid safety concerns.

Pfizer hopes that Tuesdays announcement will bolster its case with the FDA, allowing for an early US approval and infected Americans having access to the pill by early next year.

Our oral antiviral candidate, if authorized or approved, could have a meaningful impact on the lives of many, as the data further support the efficacy of Paxlovid in reducing hospitalization and death and show a substantial decrease in viral load, said Albert Bourla, the companys chief executive, in a statement.

This potential treatment could be a critical tool to help quell the pandemic.

Pfizers latest study was an analysis of 2,246 unvaccinated, high-risk test subjects. None of those in the trial given Paxlovid died, compared with 12 placebo recipients.

The Pfizer pills are taken every 12 hours. They reduced the risk of hospitalization or death by 89% within three days of symptom onset and 88% within five days.

Mikael Dolsten, Pfizers chief scientific officer, told Reuters that it was a stunning outcome.

Were talking about a staggering number of lives saved and hospitalizations prevented. And of course, if you deploy this quickly after infection, we are likely to reduce transmission dramatically, he said.

Dolsten said that more than 200 scientists had been working to develop the pill since early 2020, and that the initial hope had been for it to be at least 60% effective. It works by inhibiting an enzyme known as a protease, which is prominent in the rapidly spreading Omicron mutation of Covid-19.

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/14/pfizer-covid-pill-effective-protecting-against-severe-disease-omicron

So can we likehave it please?

I keep hearing about pill this and pill that but nobody can get em yet. Come tf on and make them available already.

I'll take 2000 of them

You know what else is effective

The goddamn fucking vaccine holy shit just fucking get vaccinated you imbeciles

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Pfizer says MONEYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

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Antivaxxers are the best thing to happen to pharmaceutical companies since the vaccine.