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Pfizer seeks FDA emergency use authorization for its experimental Covid-19 antiviral pill

Pfizer seeks FDA emergency use authorization for its experimental Covid-19 antiviral pill

Pfizer is seeking emergency use authorization from the US Food and Drug Administration for its experimental antiviral Covid-19 pill.

 

The medicine, known as PF-07321332 or Paxlovid, is to be administered in combination with an older antiviral drug called ritonavir and is meant to treat mild to moderate Covid-19 in patients at increased risk of hospitalizations or death, the company announced.

 

Earlier this month Pfizer announced topline results from its trial:

 

- PAXLOVID™ (PF-07321332; ritonavir) was found to reduce the risk of hospitalization or death by 89% compared to placebo in non-hospitalized high-risk adults with COVID-19
- In the overall study population through Day 28, no deaths were reported in patients who received PAXLOVID™ as compared to 10 deaths in patients who received placebo.

 

A specifically designed SARS-CoV-2-3CL protease inhibitor

 

"If approved or authorized, PAXLOVID™, which originated in Pfizer’s laboratories, would be the first oral antiviral of its kind, a ...

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