Friday, March 26, 2021

A Pill to Treat Covid May Be Getting Closer


If you come down with influenza, there's a good chance your doctor will immediately prescribe a five-day course of the antiviral pill oseltamivir in order to shorten the course of illness. Now Pfizer is trying to see if something similar can be done for the coronavirus. It's recently begun human safety trials of a new pill that could be given at the first sign of a coronavirus infection, to prevent it from becoming severe.

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