There are more and more reports of patients who were taking Pfizer’s antiviral pill experiencing a second round of Covid-19 shortly after recovering, according to NBC.
Pfizer’s Paxlovid became the first US authorized home COVID-19 treatment. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization for Pfizer’s antiviral pill for the treatment of mild-to-moderate COVID-19 infections in December.
According to the press release, Paxlovid significantly reduced the proportion of people with COVID-19-related hospitalization or death from any cause by 88%.
Biden administration announced this week to double the number of locations that carry Paxlovid. They secured funding to purchase 20 million treatment courses of the antiviral pill, per CNN.
White House Covid-19 Response Coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha tweeted about Biden’s plan to make the pill available.
“Paxlovid is extraordinarily effective at preventing bad outcomes. We’re getting it out to the American people,” he said.
One of the consistent major side effects of all of the COVID vaccines seems to be bafflement.