What if there was a pill you could take as soon as you test positive for Covid, that stopped the virus in its tracks? No matter, the transmission onslaught will, at the very least, induce tens of millions of new infections around the world. With more than 130,000 new confirmed infections a day, health systems will get overrun from inadequate staffing of healthcare workers, many of whom are absent with Omicron infections. That gets us to the vital need for the Paxlovid five-day pill pack (two pills a day, and one other pill, a low dose ritonavir to help raise Paxlovid’s blood level) to be available everywhere. This anti-Covid pill has all the features of a breakthrough intervention at the time when we absolutely need it.

Source: The Guardian December 22, 2021 06:31 UTC