Pfizer's Covid drug Paxlovid may reduce the risk of developing long Covid, study says

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People who took Pfizer's antiviral treatment Paxlovid shortly after infection saw a 26% lower risk of long Covid compared with those who didn't, the study said.

, co-medical director at the University of Washington's post-COVID-19 Rehabilitation and Recovery Clinic. She called the new study "very exciting and promising" because it's the first to show an association between Paxlovid and a decreased risk of long Covid., a board-certified internal medicine physician who sees patients at the University of Washington Medicine Primary Care, added that prescribers can use the study results to encourage the uptake of Paxlovid.

But Chopra acknowledged that the study was observational, meaning the researchers observed participants who did or didn't take Paxlovid without intervening. It wasn't a randomized controlled study – considered the for clinical research – where researchers intervene and can better examine a potential cause-and-effect relationship between receiving a drug like Paxlovid and an outcome.She said the study's other limitation is it identified participants using health-care databases of the Department of Veteran Affairs. The researchers need to conduct studies in other patient populations outside of that health-care system, according to Becker.

The study comes as Paxlovid inches closer to winning full approval from the Food and Drug Administration, with the agency's advisors votingMore than 12 million courses of Paxlovid have been delivered to pharmacies across the U.S., according to the latest

 

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who cares!

It also may not reduce too 😂😂

thereidout But what are the side effects?

‘May’ and ‘study says’ all you need to know.

Ill trust a drink made by Bill Cosby over any 'study' put out by pfizer!

Pfizer is a money making pig, “Pigshere”. No longer science. Toxic barely tested garbage for desperate sheep. We see you, we are over your emotional commercials, corporate push, and ties to government for mandates of your drugs. Next!

How can you clowns seriously be pushing more of their garbage COVID drugs? Although I guess if they send enough money, you all will shill for anything

This shit is poison.

'may' . I 'may' win the lottery next week as well.

Not exactly the kinda shit you wanna be pushing - or maybe it is.

I wonder how much advertising money Pfizer spends with cnbc

Nobody believes pfizer anymore…

May reduce? Fire the entire marketing department

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