Virologist Altstein: the drug Pfizer from COVID-19 is effective in the first days of the disease be effective in the early days of the disease. So the new tool was evaluated by the Russian virologist Anatoly Altstein on the air of the radio station “Moscow speaks.” As a result, for the first time we have a specific drug that will treat a coronavirus infection, “the virologist explained.
Altstein believes that the Pfizer drug for COVID-19 is not particularly toxic. According to him, for a good effect, it is necessary to take the drug in the early stages of the disease, later the remedy may lose its force.
On the eve of Roszdravnadzor gave permission to the American pharmaceutical company Pfizer to conduct clinical trials of the effectiveness of the drug against COVID-19 in Russia.
Pfizer clarified that Paxlovid can be used to prevent coronavirus and treat patients with severe disease. It reduces the risk of hospitalization or death by 89 percent after contracting COVID-19, the pharmaceutical company noted.
90 Russians over 18 years old who have come into contact with people with COVID-19 symptoms at home will take part in clinical trials. Among them will be residents of the Moscow region, St. Petersburg, Barnaul, Smolensk and other cities.