company officials say it can cut the chances of hospitalization or death by almost 90% if patients take it within a few days of their first symptoms. the company is trying to get emergency use authorization from the fda now for this pill, and cnn s senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen is with us now. what is this final data showing us? this final data is quite dramatic, but before i talk about it, i want to say one thing. which is that this pill is an antiviral pill. it is not a replacement for a vaccine. you don t want to get covid, period. end of sentence. but if you do get covid, you want to have a drug that can be used to treat it. so merck has an antiviral that they are working with the fda on, and pfizer now has this data and has applied for emergency use authorization from the fda. let s take a look at pfizer data on this antiviral. what they found is 89% lower risk of hospitalization or death
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