Paxlovid sees an uptick in prescriptions, as more doctors order that patients take Pfizer’s at-home treatment over the Merck-Ridgeback pill
If you’ve had Covid before, why can you get it again? WSJ’s Daniela Hernandez explains what the possibility of reinfections means for the future of public-health policy and the Covid-19 pandemic. Illustration: David FangThe Covid-19 treatment from Pfizer Inc.
has become the leading pandemic pill prescribed in the U.S., as supplies have improved andPfizer’s antiviral drug, called Paxlovid, totaled more than 412,000 prescriptions through May 6, compared with about 110,000 prescriptions of molnupiravir, an antiviral from Merck & Co. and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics LP, according to drug-data firm Iqvia Holdings Inc.
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