WASHINGTON, May 18 — Rising Covid-19 cases are driving up the use of therapeutics, with Pfizer Inc’s PFE.N oral antiviral treatment Paxlovid seeing a 315 per cent jump over the past four weeks, US health officials said yesterday. The increase in US cases and hospitalisations is starting to...
WASHINGTON, May 18 — Rising Covid-19 cases are driving up the use of therapeutics, with Pfizer Inc’s PFE.N oral antiviral treatment Paxlovid seeing a 315 per cent jump over the past four weeks, US health officials said yesterday.
“But we now have better treatments and many of those people will leave the hospital vertically rather than horizontally.” “The other thing that’s going on is that we’re providing the opportunity for spread; we’ve taken off our masks, we’re going back to group activities both in business and for recreation,” said Schaffner.
There are currently nearly 20,000 people hospitalised across the country, up from 16,500 last week, according to a Reuters tally. Hospitalisations have also been steadily rising from a recent low of 12,000 in mid-April.Deaths, a lagging indicator, have held fairly steady at a daily average between of 300 to 500. Covid-19 has killed more than a million US residents since the start of the pandemic.
Paxlovid is approved to keep high-risk individuals with Covid-19 from becoming seriously ill. It is meant to taken for five days beginning shortly after symptom onset. Health officials face a challenge in convincing the public that repeat vaccinations are beneficial, said Schaffner.
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