American pharmaceutical company Pfizer Inc. which is to generate 10 million COVID vaccines to enable the Biden administration to vaccinate 100 million Americans now has early clinical trials in India for coronavirus. On Tuesday, India started rolling out Pfizer vaccines for coronavirus.
Presently, the Pfizer vaccine is going through the early testing stage is a class of protease inhibitors, which has been used successfully since 2007to treat AIDS and hepatitis C. In fact, Pfizer’s HIV drug SELZENTRY is the latest fully approved treatment for HIV.
The “investigational, oral antiviral drug for Covid-19” has shown per a report from the US media that the new candidate has shown “potent in vitro antiviral activity” against the virus that causes Covid-19, as well as the activity against coronaviruses. Scientists and doctors have been enthused by this positive reaction to study the ‘under testing oral drug’ that they state can deal with future pandemics,
Pfizer’s chief scientific officer Mikael Dolsten stated, “Prevention using vaccines and targeted treatment for those who contract Covid-19, both are necessary to tackle the ongoing pandemic. Looking at the mutating SARS Cov-2 its continued global impact, it appears likely that it will be critical to have access to therapeutic options both now and beyond the coronavirus pandemic.”
Covid Live Updates today, March 24th, India reports 47,262 new COVID-19 cases 275 deaths