The U.S. on Wednesday authorized Pfizer Inc’s (PFE.N) oral antiviral COVID-19 pill for at-risk people aged 12 and above, making it the first at-home treatment for the coronavirus and a potentially important tool in the fight against the fast spreading Omicron variant, Reuters reported.
Data from Pfizer’s clinical trial showed its antiviral regimen, Paxlovid, was 90% effective in preventing hospitalizations and deaths in patients at high risk of severe illness. Recent lab data suggests the drug retains its effectiveness against Omicron, Pfizer said.
“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,” Patrizia Cavazzoni, director of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, said.
The agency said it authorized the oral drug for emergency use for the treatment of mild-to-moderate disease in adults and pediatric patients 12 years of age and older, who are at high risk for progression to severe COVID-19, Reuters reported.
The drug is available by prescription only and should be initiated as soon as possible after diagnosis of COVID-19 and within five days of symptom onset, the agency said. The pills are meant to be taken every 12 hours for five days beginning shortly after the onset of symptoms.
This essentially supplants the need for the toxic vaccine. You shouldn’t trust Pfizer’s vaccine—just google “pfizer criminal probe” and you’ll see all Pfizer’s convictions.
Oh, wait, the pill is also made by Pfizer, so why do I trust it? Maybe I just don’t like the vaccine because my friends on Facebook don’t like it.
Many people are unaware that one of the most common serious side effects from antivirals (including this new drug and ivermectin) is psychosis. Granted, this drug may have some guaranteed and well-established risks, but at least it’s not an “experimental” drug.
I’m not hearing all the “but most drugs are approved only after years of testing!” People seem afraid of the word “vaccine.” That’s really the only explanation I can think of.
The question is will the anti vaxers take the pill or will they say that is poison because it was developed by Pfizer I bet the later
They’d take the pill because of no other choice but see no reason to take anything when they aren’t sick since there are other risks involved such as heart inflammation.
these darn pharmaceutical companies trying to make people well who do they think they are?
You keep believing that whilst they make billions off us!
They only make money from people who don’t eat healthy, exercise, control their bodyweight and refuse to take otyer preventative measures such as getting the vaccine
Monoclonal antibodies otherwise known as the infusion is more expeirnmental then the vaccine, but the haters are rolling up their sleeves and getting injected with an hours worth of experimental medication because they don’t want to take a vaccine.
Ignorance that makes the mind go numb.
Vax is way safer then the infusion.
Get a grip.
Not all about being right wing and conspiracy theorist – Make the Jewish people frum again!
I may or may not agree with your sentiment but the infusion has been used in the last century (1985:).
Covid-19 itself is also an experimental virus, probably concocted in a Chinese lab with who knows what in it. This, the anti-vaxxers are happy to be infected by in their social-darwinist utopia. But a vaccine developed by an American corporation that has everything to lose if something goes wrong (Pfizer has a $330 billion dollar market cap), they don’t trust.
Or so say the Whatsapp professors with PhD’s in biology, virology, and epidemiology, from such esteemed institutions as…
They’d rather trust China than Trump, who said to get the vaccine.
this pill fights the virus. But it does so using the same mechanism as… wait for it…
Ivermectin. You know, the same thing that was mocked as “horse dewormer” even though it was developed for (and its inventor won a Nobel Prize for) humans.
So to be consistent, anyone who pooh-poohed ivermectin, or claimed (without evidence) that it’s dangerous, must shun this one too.
Paxlovid, the new pill from Pfizer, is a 3CL protease inhibitor. Ivermectin is a lactone anthelmintic agent. There is zero connection between the 2. The mechanism of action. of each have absolutely nothing to do with the other. Now, obviously, you didn’t understand a word of what I just said, but then, I never trusted your Facebook MD degree anyways.
to disguise lies! Par for the course, naturally.
“Antihelminthic” just means “against worms.” We know that it’s used for that purpose, but that of course says nothing about the actual mechanism by which it kills said worms. A little more searching in the medical literature reveals that the mechanism is… protease inhibition. Maybe you need to trust the science, huh?
Wonder how/why it was so quick for Pfizer to make a vaccine but took longer to make a pill?
I’m no pharmacist or medical expert but this whole thing seems sketchy…
If you’re no pharmacist or medical expert why would it matter what it seems to you?
non-pharmacists and non-medical experts have something Hashem gave them called “common sense.” Try it sometime.
So I should just take things without researching anything? Ask no questions? Obey blindly?
What’s wrong with trusting your gut and not a big Pharma company?
They patented the vaccine before they patented the virus.
No thanks
I’ll stick with hydroxychloriquine or ivermectin with zinc. Worked great for me last time. And has an excellent safety record.
You know what worked for me and thousands of others? Resting up at home. We were all fine, but that’s no proof.
You seem to shtech everything. He said what works for him he’s not proving anything to you. By the way the same protocol worked for me.
For some people resting at home when a virus is spreading throughout your body is not wise. Best to treat the virus early whichever method works for you.
I’m not a scientist and I don’t care to prove anything to you. I do however trust my own eyes and I saw a marked difference for the better a few hours after starting hydroxychloriquine. So I know it works for me. But yeah you do yours
If so, what you are proving (unintentionally?) is that covid is unlike smallpox or polio. And the reaction to covid is way over the top and not grounded in reality.
And i wore socks while I was sick and drank water so socks and water must also be cures. Oh, and I got infected on a Tuesday so Tuesdays must be protective. Anyone ever hear of correlation is not causation?.
They already had enough testing and experience for a variant discovered not more than 2 months ago?!?
trying to use logic. Don’t you know that modern “science” means “do what you’re told by Your Betters and don’t ask questions, peasant”?
This didn’t yet get reg full fda approval
Now enough of the vaccine and mask mandates and lockdowns since we have the cure
Because the vaccine prevents hospitalization and death so why would people who got the vaccine need this drug?