Prognosis
Biden Administration to Buy 10 Million Courses of Pfizer Covid Pill
- U.S. also has bought 3.1 million courses of Merck’s treatment
- Fauci warns that new treatments aren’t substitute for vaccine
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The Biden administration plans to buy enough of Pfizer Inc.’s new Covid-19 pill to treat 10 million patients, people familiar with the matter say.
Pfizer’s pill to treat the disease caused by the coronavirus showed extraordinary results in a clinical trial, reducing hospitalization and death by 89% among high-risk Covid-19 patients. The company said Tuesday it asked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for emergency-use authorization for the pill, administered twice a day for five days.