The World Health Organization said Friday it "strongly recommended" Pfizer's Covid-19 antiviral pill Paxlovid for patients with milder forms of the disease who were still at a high risk of hospitalisation.
hospitalized for omicron than for other variants. in addition, the biden administration has now ordered 20 million treatment courses of the pfizer covid pill, though we clearly need more. the early data and it is early, suggests two conclusions. omicron is much less lethal than previous mutations of the virus. secondly, the vaccines, especially with the booster shot, are highly effective at preventing serious illness and death. that means we re in a fundamentally different situation than we were in march 2020, when the original virus was sweeping around the world. we don t need lockdowns, school closures or onerous travel restrictions, instead we need to make an even sharper distinction between the vaccinated and those who are not, coupled with sensible measures to slow the spread of the virus so the health care system is not overburdened. the cdc has shortened the
though relatively few who had been vaccinated, people were less likely, 80% lower according to one preprint study posted in december 2021, to be hospitalized for omicron than for other variants. in addition, the biden administration has now ordered 20 million treatment courses of the pfizer covid pill, though we clearly need more. the early data and it is early suggests two conclusions. omicron is much less lethal than previous mutations of the virus. second, the vaccines, especially with the booster shot, are highly effective at preventing serious illness and death. that means we re in a fundamentally different situation than we were in march 2020, when the original virus was sweeping around the world. we don t need lockdowns, school closures or onerous travel restrictions. instead we need to make an even sharper distinction between the vaccinated and those who are not, coupled with sensible measures to slow the spread of the virus so the health care system is not overburdened. th
Pfizer announced Wednesday it started a Phase 2/3 study of its COVID pill treatment in children. Local public health experts explain what the potential treatment could mean for families.