International experts hope the community understands the “prevention is better than cure” rule, stating that Covid-19 treatment drugs are only a preventive weapon for vaccines, not a “silver bullet” to repel the disease. A year after the Covid-19 vaccine offered hope to end the pandemic, scientists announced the results of testing two potential antiviral tablets, […]
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US spends 5.3 billion USD to buy Covid-19 drug from Pfizer
The US government paid $5.29 billion to buy 10 million courses of the antiretroviral drug paxlovid to treat Covid-19, pharmaceutical company Pfizer said on November 18. The deal is twice as large as the one the country signed with Merck to buy molnupiravir. The price of paxlovid is $530 per course, 25% less than $700 […]