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Ridgewood NJ, Oral antivirals could transform the treatment of COVID-19, allowing some patients to take medicines while recovering at home instead of having to visit health clinics or be admitted to hospital to receive injections or infusions of currently available therapies. Pfizer this morning released final analysis of its oral antiviral candidate PAXLOVID (the protease inhibitors nirmatrelvir and ritonavir, taken together), showing the treatment retained its 89% efficacy in preventing hospitalization and death among 2,246 high-risk COVID-19 patients.
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