Coronavirus Notebook: Pfizer Files Paxlovid In EU, France Updates Treatment Advice As Omicron Proliferates

NRx Pharmaceuticals has again filed for a US emergency use authorization for aviptadil, this time for critically ill patients with no other options. The UK has said that there is currently no need to give a second booster vaccine.

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The European Medicines Agency has begun assessing a conditional marketing authorization application (MAA) from Pfizer for its oral antiviral, Paxlovid (PF-07321332 plus ritonavir), for treating mild-to-moderate COVID-19 in adult and adolescent patients who are at high risk of progressing to severe disease.

An opinion on the product from the agency’s human drugs committee, the CHMP, is expected “within weeks” as the committee...

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