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Stop & Shop has begun offering two approved COVID-19 antiviral medicines, Pfizer s Paxlovid and Merck s Molnupiravir at its 55 New York pharmacies.The mega-supermarket chain made the announcement on Thursday, April 7, that the drugs wo…
dr. siegel, thank you for coming in on this christmas eve. always so nice to see you. hi, anita. good to see you. anita: first of all, your reaction to these pills just approved by the fda, one by pfizer, the other from merck, and another company. you can remind me. these are only for the severely ill and those at high risk, is that correct? that s what the fda is saying. they are saying to me, you should only prescribe these, dr. siegel, if other treatments aren t available. i don t think this is where this will end up. i think that s very cautious. i think this is the drug out of the starting gates and the drug is really the pfizer paxlovid drug, not the merck molnupiravir. it doesn t work as well as the pfizer drug at clinical trials, which decreases the risk of hospitalization by 90%. that is huge. as you just outlined, the problem is i want to give it early in the game, and i want to do it with someone at home who isn t feeling well who get the
medications that have emergency use authorization by the fda, paxlovid and molnupiravir. it is recommended to use paxlovid because it does have a higher efficacy than molnupiravir by merck, but if we don t have paxlovid available, then we should go ahead and use the other antiviral bed, because it can still give you 30-50% protection against death and hospitalization. whereas paxlovid by pfizer can give you up to 90% protection. what does that mean? you are less likely to be hospitalized, less likely to lose your life. if you re able to start these antiviral pills, ideally within 72 hours. if you still take them on day four or five, it could still be effective, but is most effective if you take it within 72 hours. this is a blessing, it s a miracle, it is just a matter of getting the supply. we need production, we need manufacturing of this medication. we need it now. so that s the biggest issue we