Tag: Paxlovid

Satellite Images Show Busy Chinese Funeral Homes

Satellite images are highlighting China’s death surge, showing an uptick in the number of vehicles parked at funeral homes. A Pfizer-made COVID-19 drug is soon to be removed from China’s health insurance list. Beijing is complaining the drug is “too expensive,” while the drugmaker’s CEO disagrees. Bipartisan efforts are working to counter the Chinese communist…


Is the White House’s Push for Paxlovid Evidence-Based?

The Biden administration and government agencies continue to push Pfizer’s COVID-19 emergency use authorization product, Paxlovid, even with insufficient new trial data showing effectiveness in the current population. Pfizer’s initial clinical trial for Paxlovid in 2021, which earned it an emergency use authorization (EAU) by the FDA, seemed quite promising. Results showed a relative risk reduction of progression…


US to Pay Pfizer $2 Billion for 3.7 Million More Courses of Paxlovid

The United States has struck a deal with Pfizer to pay the pharmaceutical giant almost $2 billion for 3.7 million more courses of Paxlovid. “The additional 3.7 million treatment courses are planned for delivery by early 2023,” the company announced. The Defense Department announced on Dec. 13 that Pfizer was awarded a $1,959,999,848 contract for Paxlovid. “Work…


Paxlovid, Advertised for Mass Use, Has Contraindications With Hundreds of Drugs

One of the most robustly campaigned and well-known drugs for treating COVID is Paxlovid. Yet the drug’s limited clinical studies and numerous drug interactions raise questions of safety for COVID patients. Approved for Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) in December 2021 and promoted by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), health officials, and politicians alike, Paxlovid…


Doctors Warn Pfizer COVID Treatment Paxlovid Can Interact With Common Medications

The COVID-19 drug Paxlovid can have dangerous interactions with common medications used to treat cardiovascular disease, including certain statins, warned doctors in a new review paper. A paper published Wednesday in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology shows the combination of nirmatrelvir and ritonavir, or Pfizer’s Paxlovid, can interact with a number of…


FDA Asks Pfizer to Test Second Paxlovid Course in Patients With COVID-19 Rebound

The  Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has asked Pfizer Inc. to test the effects of an additional course of its antiviral Paxlovid among people who experience a rebound in COVID-19 after treatment, the regulator said on Friday. The drugmaker must produce the initial results of a randomized controlled trial of a second course of the…


Why Did Biden Get COVID Twice After 4 Shots, Paxlovid?

President Joe Biden was confirmed to be infected with COVID-19 on July 21, 2022. Biden had received four doses of vaccine, but why is he still infected with BA.5? Just a few days after his initial recovery, on July 30 Biden got COVID again: White House doctor Kevin O’Connor said that it was a Paxlovid…


Biden Tests Positive for COVID-19 Again, Returns to Isolation

President Joe Biden tested positive for COVID-19 again on Saturday morning, the president’s physician said. Dr. Kevin O’Connor, the White House physician, said in a letter that it’s a rare “rebound” case that usually is observed in a small percentage of patients treated with Paxlovid. Biden has experienced no reemergence of symptoms and “continues to…


Fauci Likely to Birth His Own COVID Variant After Paxlovid

Fauci experienced COVID-19 rebound after taking one course of Paxlovid. After his symptoms returned with a vengeance, he took a second course, which experts believe could be triggering SARS-CoV-2 mutations and resistance. STORY AT-A-GLANCE The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a warning about the potential for COVID-19 rebound after Paxlovid treatment Dr….


Pfizer Stops Enrollment in Paxlovid Trial for Less Vulnerable COVID-19 Patients

Pfizer has announced it will stop enrollment in a clinical trial for Paxlovid—its COVID-19 antiviral pill—for standard-risk COVID-19 patients after the latest results suggested the drug did not reduce symptoms or hospitalizations and deaths to a statistically significant degree. Paxlovid, which consists of two different antiviral drugs—nirmatrelvir and ritonavir—is currently approved or authorized for conditional or…