Quote from: teosanru on Today at 08:41:07 PM

Quote from: Ultegra134 on December 23, 2021, 05:47:39 PM

A new oral antiviral drug from Pfizer has now approved emergency authorization on Wednesday, 22/12/2021. This medication is recommended to high risk patients, and it's said to be available within the week. It has been approved for patients above 12 years old, with mild to moderate Covid-19 symptoms and should be prescribed as soon as possible after diagnosis, and within 5 days.

The rollout of this new tool against Covid-19, is coming at a crucial point of the pandemic, with the new Omicron variant being now the dominant strain, while along with the approved vaccines, the condition should gradually improve.

Source:
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/22/fda-authorizes-pfizers-covid-treatment-pill-the-first-oral-antiviral-drug-cleared-during-the-pandemic.html

I am surprised with the audacity of Pfizer as a healthcare company, first, they lobbied for their RNA vaccines all around the world in name of highly effective vaccines, when the world thought these vaccines are effective and were about to use them, they brought up the booster shot idea which was wild. We all know the rush that we people went through to ensure we get vaccines ASAP. Now apart from the preventive actions they have successfully lobbied an antiviral drug that too with very minimal test results, and not the only US but the UK to have approved this. If after all these things the situation doesn't improve then I think all these are just the money-minting techniques these companies are carrying out.

It's kind of expected, that during a pandemic, pharmaceutical companies such as Pfizer, Jansen etc. are thriving. Of course, their main goal is probably to make money, and it's the perfect opportunity for some, even your local pharmacy, supermarket, grocery store and so on thrived during quarantine. However, said companies have immense pressure to find a solution, which won't only be safe, but effective too. I'm positive that in the next few months, we'll have more tools to tackle this pandemic, the sooner, the better.