{"id":54002,"date":"2021-04-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/29\/covid-19-pill-could-be-available-later-this-year-pfizer-ceo\/"},"modified":"2021-04-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T00:00:00","slug":"covid-19-pill-could-be-available-later-this-year-pfizer-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/29\/covid-19-pill-could-be-available-later-this-year-pfizer-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Pill Could Be Available Later This Year: Pfizer CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>\n<p>If clinical trials are successful and the FDA approves the drug, it could be available across the United States later in 2021<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>THURSDAY, April 29, 2021 (HealthDay News) &#8212; A pill to treat COVID-19 is being developed by Pfizer and could be available by the end of the year, company CEO Albert Bourla says.<\/p>\n<p>In March, Pfizer launched an early-stage clinical trial of a new antiviral drug for the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, <em>CBS News<\/em> reported. The drug reduces the production of enzymes the virus needs to multiply in human cells.<\/p>\n<p>If clinical trials are successful and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approves the drug, it could be available across the United States later in 2021, Bourla told <em>CNBC<\/em> on Tuesday, <em>CBS News<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Mikael Dolsten, M.D., chief scientific officer and president, worldwide research, development, and medical of Pfizer, said it is possible that the new drug could be prescribed &#8220;at the first sign of infection, without requiring that patients are hospitalized or in critical care.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/pfizer-vaccine-pill-covid-19-end-of-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>CBS News<\/em> Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2021 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If clinical trials are successful and the FDA approves the drug, it could be available across the United States later in 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":54003,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-54002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}