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Biden administration to announce purchase of 10 million courses of Pfizer anti-covid pill - Paxlovid: Officials see the treatment, and another by Merck, as potential game-changers to help tame the pandemic
Washington Post ^ | 11/16/2021 | Tyler Pager and Laurie McGinley

Posted on 11/16/2021 12:28:19 PM PST by SeekAndFind

The Biden administration is expected to announce this week that it is purchasing 10 million courses of Pfizer’s covid pill, a multibillion-dollar investment in medication that officials hope will help change the trajectory of the pandemic by staving off many hospitalizations and deaths, according to two people with knowledge of the transaction.

U.S. officials see this antiviral pill, and another by Merck and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics, as potential game-changers to help restore a broader sense of normalcy and are eager to add them to a small arsenal of treatments for Americans who contract the coronavirus. With breakthrough cases rising and 30 percent of American adults not fully vaccinated, health officials believe the pills will help tame the pandemic because of their ability to thwart the virus’s most pernicious effects.

Pfizer announced earlier this month that its experimental pill, which will be sold under the brand name Paxlovid, reduced the risk of hospitalization and death by 89 percent in high-risk people when taken within three days of the onset of symptoms. The company filed an application on Tuesday for emergency use authorization with federal regulators.

The pharmaceutical giant has already started manufacturing the pill, and if the Food and Drug Administration clears it, the therapy could be available right away — though in very limited quantities. Pfizer has said it may have enough treatments to cover between 100,000 to 200,000 people by the end of the year and millions more in the first half of next year.

The White House declined to comment.

The announcement comes as coronavirus cases are increasing in many parts of the United States, raising fears among public health officials that the nation could be in for a rough winter. The seven-day rolling average of daily new cases per 100,000 residents rose 18% for week ending Nov. 15,

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chinavirustreatment; covid; merck; molnupiravir; paxlovid; pfizer; pfizermerck; pill
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To: SeekAndFind

I hope the pill is in suppository form so that Biden can easily shove them up his ass.


21 posted on 11/16/2021 12:51:15 PM PST by Clarancebeaks
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s been two damn years. I haven’t worn a mask, not vaxxed, wife works at nursing home that covid 1.0 and delta have both been through. Kids back in school since last Fall, no masks. If we haven’t gotten it yet, I don’t think we’re going to. Don’t need a shot or a pill.


22 posted on 11/16/2021 12:52:15 PM PST by Pollard (PureBlood -- youtube.com/watch?v=VXm0fkDituE)
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To: SeekAndFind

Such BS. Has already been demonstrated that these pills provide just one of the several ways that Ivermectin (essential medicine available at 6 cents per pill from the WHO) counters the bioweapon.


23 posted on 11/16/2021 12:52:48 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: SeekAndFind

Pfizermectin is done hun?

can I just have the old cheap stuff please?


24 posted on 11/16/2021 12:52:55 PM PST by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house.... But the fact checkers said theintjey did story was false!)
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To: SeekAndFind

I wish just one Governor had the balls to order 30 million doses of Ivermectin to be Given out to the Public while BANNING the FAKE DNA Spiking Experimental Drug


25 posted on 11/16/2021 12:57:24 PM PST by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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To: Hazwaste

We are glad to have our doctor on board with the same.


26 posted on 11/16/2021 1:03:58 PM PST by The Unknown Republican
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To: SeekAndFind
So...Pfizer is selling Pfivermectin to U.S. taxpayers at greatly inflated rates now that they know they can't push the Jim Jones Jab on more people.

Since Pfizer's Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) was based on the false testimony of "no alternative treatments", since this drug is Ivermectin which has been around for years, Pfizer's EUA for the Jim Jones Jab was fraudulent and their indemnification from lawsuits is invalid.

27 posted on 11/16/2021 1:04:38 PM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: SeekAndFind

At $700 a pill, that’s 7 billion coins in the Pfizer Pfountain...


28 posted on 11/16/2021 1:31:21 PM PST by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: SeekAndFind

I would refuse the pill if the deep nasal swab torture antigen test is a prerequisite. Stick with my ivermectin and natural immunity.


29 posted on 11/16/2021 1:59:01 PM PST by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: SeekAndFind

10% for the Big Guy.


30 posted on 11/16/2021 2:38:14 PM PST by bray (Our patience is wearing thin Joe)
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To: SeekAndFind

Isn’t this the pill made of Ivermectin?


31 posted on 11/16/2021 3:20:57 PM PST by stockpirate (Rebellion to tyranny is obedience to God., Where Justice Ends Tyranny Begins.)
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To: Hazwaste
To vitamin D and zinc, add the following Covid deterrents (all from official studies done):

. . . taking lysine, drinking coffee, taking the cholesterol drug fenofibrate, sitting in a sauna regularly.

32 posted on 11/16/2021 6:11:53 PM PST by MrChips ("To wisdom belongs the apprehension of eternal things." - St. Augustine )
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