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Statement from Pfizer Chairman and CEO Albert Bourla on Testing Positive for COVID-19

Pfizer

I am grateful to have received four doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and I am feeling well while experiencing very mild symptoms. I am incredibly grateful for the tireless efforts of my Pfizer colleagues who worked to make vaccines and treatments available for me and people around the world. COVID-19, Vaccines. 07.19.2022.

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Pfizer to Provide U.S. Government with an Additional 3.7 Million Treatment Courses of PAXLOVID™ to Help Combat COVID-19

Pfizer

Nirmatrelvir is designed to inhibit viral replication at a stage known as proteolysis, which occurs before viral RNA replication. PAXLOVID may only be prescribed for an individual patient by physicians, advanced practice registered nurses, and physician assistants that are licensed or authorized under state law to prescribe drugs.

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COVID-19 Pandemic Coverage

XTalks

Vaccine Nationalism” Could Prove the Undoing of COVID-19 Containment. Tension is mounting as nations big and small jockey around industry to ensure they are first in line to access a vaccine, should one prove to be successful against COVID-19. Moderna’s COVID-19 Vaccine. The price of that prize is incalculable.

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Pfizer Signs Agreement to Provide the European Union with PAXLOVID™

Pfizer

Nirmatrelvir is designed to inhibit viral replication at a stage known as proteolysis, which occurs before viral RNA replication. Pfizer has committed to provide its patent-protected medicines and vaccines available in the U.S. A transient decrease in body weight was observed in the nursing offspring of rats administered nirmatrelvir.

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U.S. FDA Extends Review of Pfizer’s New Drug Application for PAXLOVID™

Pfizer

Nirmatrelvir is designed to inhibit viral replication at a stage known as proteolysis, which occurs before viral RNA replication. PAXLOVID may only be prescribed for an individual patient by physicians, advanced practice registered nurses, and physician assistants that are licensed or authorized under state law to prescribe drugs.

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Pfizer Receives Positive CHMP Opinion for Conversion of PAXLOVID™ Conditional Marketing Authorization to Full Marketing Authorization in the European Union

Pfizer

Nirmatrelvir is designed to inhibit viral replication at a stage known as proteolysis, which occurs before viral RNA replication. A transient decrease in body weight was observed in the nursing offspring of rats administered nirmatrelvir. In preclinical studies, nirmatrelvir did not demonstrate evidence of mutagenic DNA interactions.

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Comment: Drug discovery and the International Day of Action for Women’s Health

Drug Discovery World

1 Clinical trials Until recently, medicines and vaccines were mainly tested on men. They know that male and female bodies are genetically different, that they experience differences in the prevalence, course and severity of many common human diseases and metabolise foreign substances – like medicines and vaccines – differently.

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