{"id":121106,"date":"2021-12-14T20:13:06","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T19:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=121106"},"modified":"2021-12-14T20:19:25","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T19:19:25","slug":"our-covid-pill-effective-against-omicron-variant-says-pfizer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/12\/14\/our-covid-pill-effective-against-omicron-variant-says-pfizer\/","title":{"rendered":"Our COVID pill effective against Omicron variant, says Pfizer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pfizer has announced that its experimental oral pill for COVID-19, PAXLOVID, worked against the Omicron variant in laboratory studies.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that\u00a0<span class=\"s1\">Pfizer had announced in November that the pill\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s2\">helps to reduce the rate of hospitalisation and death by 89 percent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">It had also asked the United States Food and Drug Administration to authorise the pill, based on a preliminary batch of data.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">The development is part of worldwide efforts in the search for treatment options that can be taken at home to ease <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/12\/14\/nphcda-1m-expired-covid-vaccine-doses-will-be-destroyed-in-full-glare-of-public\/\">COVID<\/a> symptoms, speed up recovery and reduce the burden on hospitals and doctors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Pfizer in its announcement on Tuesday also said<\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0its antiviral pill helps to prevent severe disease.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWe are confident that, if authorized or approved, this potential treatment could be a critical tool to help quell the pandemic,\u201d Albert Bourla, Pfizer\u2019s chief executive, said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">According to the company, when given within three days of the onset of symptoms, PAXLOVID reduced the risk of hospitalisation and death by 89 percent, and when given within five days, the risk was reduced almost as much \u2014 to 88 percent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">It said 0.7 percent of patients who received PAXLOVID were hospitalised within 28 days of entering the trial and none died.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">The results were based on an analysis of 2,246 unvaccinated volunteers at high risk of severe disease.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Pfizer also released preliminary data from a separate trial focused on people at lower risk \u2014 the group of 662 volunteers included vaccinated people who carried a risk factor for severe disease, as well as unvaccinated patients with no risk factors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">PAXLOVID was said to have reduced the risk of hospitalisation and death by 70 percent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">In both trials, most of the volunteers were infected with the Delta variant but Pfizer said on Tuesday that in laboratory experiments, PAXLOVID also performed well against the Omicron variant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Mikael Dolsten, the chief scientific officer of Pfizer, said the company would have 180,000 courses of treatment ready if PAXLOVID was authorised soon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">He added that the company plans to make 80 million courses available worldwide in 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pfizer has announced that its experimental oral pill for COVID-19, PAXLOVID, worked against the Omicron variant in laboratory studies. 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