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The US National Institutes of Health’s $1 billion RECOVER Initiative has picked Pfizer Inc’s antiviral drug Paxlovid as the first treatment it will study in patients with long COVID, organisers of the study said on Thursday.

Paxlovid, which combines a new Pfizer pill with the old antiviral ritonavir, is currently authorised for use in the first days of a COVID infection to prevent severe disease in high-risk patients.Paxlovid, which combines a new Pfizer pill with the old antiviral ritonavir, is currently authorised for use in the first days of a COVID infection to prevent severe disease in high-risk patients.

According to details of the study, posted on Clinicaltrials.gov, the randomised, placebo-controlled trial will test Pfizer’s treatment or a placebo in 1 700 volunteers aged 18 and older. The trial will investigate a leading theory of the cause of long COVID, which holds that fragments of the virus persist in the tissues of some individuals, causing prolonged symptoms.

 

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