Five weeks after federal regulators approved Paxlovid and began distributing it to states, few people can find it—omicron's aggressive rise has quickly outstripped supplies.
This week, Pfizer told ABC News it plans to increase its production of Paxlovid overall to 120 million courses of treatment globally -- some 3.6 billion pills total.Bloomberg via Getty Images
According to one senior administration official, the White House did everything it could, including promising to Pfizer last July it would spend at least $1 billion on the drugs if it worked. This informal"handshake agreement" was intended to be a powerful incentive for the company, which doesn't use government money to develop new products, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The antibody cocktails, made by Eli Lilly and Regeneron, were found to be useless against omicron, now 99.9% of all U.S. cases.
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