The drug companies like Pfizer and prescribing doctors made a lot of money on this worthless treatment. In December 2021 the FDA's Patrizia Cavazzoni turned on the money hose for Pfizer.
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: FDA Authorizes First Oral Antiviral for Treatment of COVID-19
U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for Pfizer’s Paxlovid (nirmatrelvir tablets and ritonavir tablets, co-packaged for oral use) for the treatment of mild-to-moderate coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in adults and pediatric patients ...
“Today’s authorization introduces the first treatment for COVID-19 that is in the form of a pill that is taken orally — a major step forward in the fight against this global pandemic,” said Patrizia Cavazzoni, M.D., director of the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research.
In April 2024 the New England Journal of Medicine published a report which showed the Paxlovid drug was useless in treating Covid.
Nirmatrelvir for Vaccinated or Unvaccinated Adult Outpatients with Covid-19
Among the 1288 participants who received at least one dose of nirmatrelvir–ritonavir or placebo and had at least one postbaseline visit, the median time to sustained alleviation of all targeted Covid-19 signs or symptoms through day 28 was 12 days in the nirmatrelvir–ritonavir group and 13 days in the placebo group, a difference that was not significant (P=0.60).
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From August 25, 2021, to July 25, 2022, a total of 1296 participants underwent randomization and were included in the full analysis population (Figure 1), and 1288 received at least one dose of nirmatrelvir–ritonavir (654 participants) or placebo (634 participants) and had at least one postbaseline visit.
The study was run in 2021 into mid-2022. The results were available later in 2022 to show that Pfizer's Paxlovid did not work for treating Covid. The FDA has not updated the press release of their emergency use authorization, and has not apologized for giving false hope to those suffering Covid. Why were the results of the study not published for NEARLY TWO YEARS? During the past two years Pfizer continued to be paid for a treatment that does not work. The FDA should be reprimanded and lose some funding.
