Covid-19 Is Finally Treatable?
Good news finally for the entire world. After being battered medically, socially, economically by the SARS-Cov-2 virus the human world is finally fighting back. After having produced effective and safe vaccines in an incredibly quick time there have been recent breakthroughs in bringing out new molecules for the treatment of Covid-19. What are these new drugs and how do they work? How effective are they? Medicine Pfizer - Paxlovid Pfizer's Paxlovid has cleared phase 2/3 trials and results have been submitted to US FDA for emergency use authorization (EUA). What is it? Paxlovid is a combination of two drugs ( an drug Ritonavir -a capsule and an experimental drug PF-07321332 - a pill) . Ritonavir is a sacrificial molecule which is actively metabolized. This will leave the active ingredient PF-07321332 active. This will go to work on the Virus preventing its replication and thus stopping disease progression. The mode of action is by Protease Inhibition. What did the trial show? T