Pfizer Covid-19 Pill Protects Against Severe Disease

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The company said the pill reduced the risk of hospitalization and death by 89 percent if given within three days of the onset of symptoms.
A highly anticipated study of Pfizer’s Covid pill confirmed that it helps stave off severe disease, the company announced on Tuesday.

Pfizer also said its antiviral pill worked in laboratory studies against the Omicron variant, which is surging in South Africa and Europe and is expected to dominate U.S. cases in the weeks ahead.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/12/14/world/covid-omicron-vaccines

But does it cure head lice? :unsure:
 

AnnieA said:
Wonderful news at its efficacy against Covid-19!

Time and more research will tell if it has multiple therapeutic applications such as Ivermectin which is effective against select organisms in the bacteria, parasite and viral families.
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The new covid pill is Pfizer's version of Ivermectin + their messenger + the pharmaceuticals that are usually given along with Ivermectin. Maybe the extra ingredients are why Pfizer's pill costs over than 500 times more than Ivermectin.
 

Murrmurr said:
The new covid pill is Pfizer's version of Ivermectin + their messenger + the pharmaceuticals that are usually given along with Ivermectin. Maybe the extra ingredients are why Pfizer's pill costs over than 500 times more than Ivermectin.
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Very good point!
with zero liability in vaccines and record profits where is the heart of these companies who if they believe they can end this pandemic perhaps they should donate X amount of these drugs ?
lets see where their loyalty is their bottom line .........or proving they could come up with a therapeutic
 
Jeni said:
Very good point!
with zero liability in vaccines and record profits where is the heart of these companies who if they believe they can end this pandemic perhaps they should donate X amount of these drugs ?
lets see where their loyalty is their bottom line .........or proving they could come up with a therapeutic
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If they were heroes they'd have donated the vaccine to under-vaccinated countries like Africa.

It's very interesting, though, that the far less lethal, symptomatically milder new variant came from an under-vaccinated region. This was a fairly predictable event. Viruses don't want to run out of hosts, so after they ravage a population for a while, and the survivors develop natural immunity, if a virus wants to stay alive and proliferate (in a host) it has to morph into something less deadly (and more contagious, to spread to lots of hosts). SARS didn't do that, and that's why it died out.
 
I imagine that at some point in the future, there will be a "cure" developed for Covid. In the interim, the vaccines and perhaps a couple of future pills can probably limit the deaths/hospitalizations. None of these current treatments are totally effective for everyone, but if they help the majority, they are worth taking.
 
Murrmurr said:
If they were heroes they'd have donated the vaccine to under-vaccinated countries like Africa.
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The US has donated 500 million Pfizer vaccines already (it really pays to read the news!).

If Pfizer were to do that themselves, where would they get the money to manufacture more vaccines ( common sense!).
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