A NEW pill that patients with Covid can take at home to slash the chance of going to hospital will be rolled out on the NHS, regulators have announced today. The treatment, called Paxlovid (PF-0732…
Paxlovid has been developed by Pfizer and works by stopping the protease that allows the virus to replicate.Patients having the treatment will be given two tablets that are taken together, twice a day for five days.
This is in comparison to a placebo group when treatment was started within three days of the onset of Covid-19 symptoms. Favourable results were seen in patients when treatment was started within 5 days of the start of symptoms.
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