On Tuesday, the White House announced that it would take new actions to increase access to Paxlovid, Pfizer’s anti-viral COVID-19 pill.
The U.S. is committing to buying 20 million courses of Pfizer's antiviral pill in an effort to get treatment to people affected by the virus immediately after testing positive.As mask mandates are lifted, and mitigation measures are increasingly dropped across the nation, a stark reality continues to hinder the nation's return to a pre-pandemic sense of normality.
"We have vaccines that, for people with normal immune systems, are about 90% effective at preventing hospitalization, and, for those who get COVID-19 and have even a single risk factor for progression to severe disease, we have treatments, like Paxlovid and Bebtelovimab, that are 90% effective at preventing progression to hospitalization," Doron said.
"We now have more tools than ever before to protect people from the virus, including highly effective treatments," the Biden administration said in a statement Tuesday.
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