pfizer ceo, thinks there will be quick rollout of the pill. who should take this? people who are over 60 years old, who are immunosuppressed, people with chronic lung disease, heart disease, some groups of children as well and folks who are diabetic who are higher risk from many of the outcomes of covid-19. this is great information, dr. ranney. also i know that folks are going to wonder what this pill means, how it holds up against the omicron variant. this was a big question, and there is good news on that front, right? that s exactly right. so obviously the level of testing of paxlovid against omicron is not as robust as the original testing simply because omicron has only been around for a month. but preliminary testing does suggest it still works against the omicron variant, which is terrific news, especially as we
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preventing hospitalisation and death with the mrna vaccines like pfizer, moderna, up to close of 90%. so if you got that shield around you and then you have, in case you get a breakthrough infection, this other pill that you could take that will prevent you from being hospitalised by another 90% you can see how secure that will make people, even people who are over 65 and a much greater risk of people who are immunocompromised people with underlying problems like diabetes, chronic lung disease and heart disease, it is going to allow people to really be backin to allow people to really be back in the world and feel much more confident about it. i think the one thing that is terribly important to remember though is this drug is for treatment, is not going to prevent the spread of this virus, it s not going to make the virus go away. people are contagious when they get covid for about two days before they even know they are sick so they are spreading it for a good while so while this pill