Merck says its experimental Covid-19 pill reduced hospitalizations and deaths by half in people recently infected with the coronavirus and that it would soon ask health officials in the U.S. and around the world to authorize its use.
was so successful in reducing the most severe outcomes of the illness, that clinical trials of the medication were stopped early so more people might benefit, drugmaker Merck & Co. announced Friday.
"A safe, affordable and effective oral antiviral would be a huge advance in the fight against Covid," Dr. Peter Horby, a professor of emerging infectious diseases at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, said in a statement. I get calls almost every day from physicians in clinics and emergency rooms, asking 'What can I give this patient who doesn't need to be hospitalized?
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