JUST IN: Covid antiviral pill can reduce hospitalizations or deaths by up to 89% among high-risk patients, Pfizer says.
or dying from the virus, that it's stopping the studies early in the hope that the general public might benefit.
“These data suggest that our oral antiviral candidate, if approved by regulatory authorities, has the potential to save patients’ lives, reduce the severity of Covid-19 infections, and eliminate up to nine out of ten hospitalizations.” Pfizer said it planned to ask the Food and Drug Administration to authorize the drug combination “as soon as possible.”
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