Posted on 09/27/2021 2:34:24 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
Pfizer Inc said on Monday it has started a large study testing its investigational oral antiviral drug for the prevention of COVID-19 infection among those who have been exposed to the virus.
The drugmaker and its rivals, including U.S.-based Merck & Co Inc and Swiss pharmaceutical Roche Holding AG , have been racing to develop an easy-to-administer antiviral pill for COVID-19.
The mid-to-late-stage study will test Pfizer's drug, PF-07321332, in up to 2,660 healthy adult participants aged 18 and older who live in the same household as an individual with a confirmed symptomatic COVID-19 infection.
In the trial, PF-07321332, designed to block the activity of a key enzyme needed for the coronavirus to multiply, will be administered along with a low dose of ritonavir, an older medication widely used in combination treatments for HIV infection.
To date, Gilead Sciences Inc's intravenous drug remdesivir is the only approved antiviral treatment for COVID-19 in the United States.
Pfizer has also started another study of PF-07321332 in non-hospitalized, symptomatic adult patients.
Merck and partner Ridgeback Biotherapeutics recently launched a late-stage trial of their experimental drug molnupiravir for prevention of the COVID-19 infection.
Molnupiravir is also being studied in a late-stage trial in non-hospitalized patients to see if it reduces the risk of hospitalization or death.
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NOW??? Should have started that 18 months ago.
Beware the BioPharma Industrial Complex...
Does anyone know anything about this PF drug?
I have been asking for 18 months why none of these firms are not researching a “traditional” vaccine type solution for this CV19
Phimermectin?
The new Pfizer pill is a protease inhibitor.
Guess what else is a protease inhibitor. Ivermectin.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7996102/
But there’s no money to be made in ivermectin because its patent expired and it is available as a generic now.
How about a balm. When do I get me a balm?
Are we mandated to take the new oral drug along with the vaccines, masks, lockdowns and distancing or no medical care, food or jobs?
Considering its safety record, ivermectin should be over the counter.
This will sail through. NIH and it’s leadership own stock and patents in Pfizer.
Because those taxpayer billions won't spend themselves...
Maybe they will name it Pfizermectin.
Beat me by 1 second :-)
It's free in central Africa.
They will name it “Soma”.
Great minds...
They found traditional type vaccines did not produce a strong enough antibody response. That is why, for example, the Sinovax shot did not work very well.
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