{"id":143824,"date":"2021-11-05T11:48:44","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T11:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=143824"},"modified":"2021-11-05T11:48:44","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T11:48:44","slug":"pfizer-says-its-covid-pill-with-hiv-drug-cuts-the-risk-of-hospitalization-or-death-by-89","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/business\/pfizer-says-its-covid-pill-with-hiv-drug-cuts-the-risk-of-hospitalization-or-death-by-89\/","title":{"rendered":"Pfizer says its Covid pill with HIV drug cuts the risk of hospitalization or death by 89%"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Pfizer said its Covid-19 pill, used with an HIV drug, cut the risk of hospitalization or death by 89% in high-risk adults who&#x27;ve been exposed to the virus.<\/li>\n<li>It&#x27;s now the second antiviral pill behind Merck&#x27;s to demonstrate strong effectiveness for treating Covid at the first sign of illness.<\/li>\n<li>Pfizer said it plans to submit its data to the Food and Drug Administration &quot;as soon as possible.&quot;\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In this article<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>PFE<\/span><button class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistButton\"><span><\/span><\/button><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pfizer said Friday that its easy-to-administer Covid-19 pill, used in combination with a widely used HIV drug, cut the risk of hospitalization or death by 89% in high-risk adults who&#x27;ve been exposed to the virus.<\/p>\n<p>It&#x27;s now the second antiviral pill behind Merck&#x27;s to demonstrate strong effectiveness for treating Covid at the first sign of illness. If cleared by regulators, it would likely be a game changer in the ongoing global pandemic fight. Pfizer said it plans to submit its data to the Food and Drug Administration &quot;as soon as possible.&quot;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pfizer&#x27;s pill, scientifically known as PF-07321332, is part of a class of medicines called protease inhibitors and works by inhibiting an enzyme the virus needs to replicate in human cells. Protease inhibitors are used to treat other viral pathogens such as HIV and hepatitis C.<\/p>\n<p>The HIV drug helps slow the metabolism, or breakdown, of Pfizer&#x27;s pill in order for it to remain active in the body for longer periods of time at higher concentrations, the company said.<\/p>\n<p>The company said its data on the drug is based on a mid-to-late stage study of 1,219 adults who had at least one underlying medical condition and a laboratory-confirmed infection within a five-day period. Participants were also given a low dose of ritonavir, a medication commonly used in combination treatments for HIV.<\/p>\n<p>Pfizer said there were six hospitalizations and zero deaths out of the 607 trial participants who received the pill in combination with the HIV drug within five days of symptom onset. That compares with 41 hospitalizations and 10 deaths out of the 612 people who received a placebo.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;These data suggest that our oral antiviral candidate, if approved by regulatory authorities, has the potential to save patients&#x27; lives, reduce the severity of COVID-19 infections, and eliminate up to nine out of ten hospitalizations,&quot; Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike Gilead Sciences&#x27; intravenous drug remdesivir, Pfizer&#x27;s and Merck&#x27;s drugs can be taken by mouth. While vaccinations remain the best form of protection against the virus, health experts hope pills like these will keep the disease from progressing in those who do get infected and prevent trips to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Merck\u00a0and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics said Oct. 1 that they&#x27;ve developed a drug that, when administered alone, reduces the risk of hospitalization or death by around 50% for patients with mild or moderate cases of Covid.<\/p>\n<p>The antiviral pill made by Merck was approved by Britain&#x27;s medicines regulator on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>June Raine, chief executive of the U.K.&#x27;s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, said that Merck&#x27;s pill will greatly facilitate the treatment of Covid, a disease that has killed more than 5 million people globally and caused tremendous strain on health systems.<\/p>\n<p>Bourla told CNBC in April that Pfizer&#x27;s pill could be available to Americans by the end of this year.<\/p>\n<h2>CNBC Health &amp; Science <\/h2>\n<p>Read CNBC&#x27;s latest global coverage of the Covid pandemic:<\/p>\n<p>WHO warns that Europe is once again at the\u00a0epicenter\u00a0of the Covid pandemic\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Businesses have until after the holidays to implement Biden Covid vaccine mandate<\/p>\n<p>Moderna shares fall after company cuts 2021 forecast for Covid vaccine sales<\/p>\n<p>Merck&#x27;s Covid pill approved by UK regulator, a potential game-changer in fighting the pandemic<\/p>\n<p>Biden says Covid shots for kids and boosters for adults will &#x27;accelerate&#x27; nation&#x27;s path out of pandemic<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/11\/05\/pfizer-says-its-covid-pill-with-hiv-drug-cuts-the-risk-of-hospitalization-or-death-by-89percent.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pfizer said its Covid-19 pill, used with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":143823,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23051],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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