Pfizer Testing Oral Covid Treatment — Would Be First To Market

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After bringing the first vaccine to market, Pfizer hopes for the next breakthrough

a stage one clinical trial on an oral antiviral therapy that a Covid-19 patient could take when they first develop symptoms, which would make it the first oral antiviral treatment for coronavirus. ... [+]

Pfizer has been working with the company Biontech on the development of a Covid 19 vaccine. Photo: Christophe Gateau/dpa The trial is being conducted in the U.S. and relies on protease inhibitors—the same kind ofThe trial is randomized and includes placebo groups with both single and multiple-dose studies.

The company is also studying an intravenous antiviral to treat Covid-19, which is now being used on clinical trial patients hospitalized with Covid-19. “Together, the two [oral and intravenous antivirals] have the potential to create an end to end treatment paradigm that complements vaccination,” Pfizer chief scientific officer Mikael Dolsten said.

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If only they could ship vaccines properly

Isn‘t the 'Pfizer vaccine' really a product by BioNTech?

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I hope this vaccine won’t have effect on human in the future? I could remember how things were when the first vaccine came up with in the life of the Russian president daughter

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