Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, death by 85%

Re:Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, de... by bena on Friday November 05, 2021 @11:18AM (#29120483)

So 6 out of how many other studies and drugs they've released without scandal?

If we're applying the COVID standard to Pfizer, would their failure rate be greater than or less than COVID's death rate?

If we use the 2% number I've seen around here for COVID's death rate, that means if Pfizer has over 300 drugs, these six scandals are a non-issue because they happen so rarely.

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Re:Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, de... by ionwake on Friday November 05, 2021 @11:59AM (#29121107)

I’m perplexed why you are defending a corporation after such an excellent reply from the above poster ( and I’ve taken the vax).

But l add the death rate according the administration is around 0.5% from the latest stats due to lack of testing.

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Re:Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, de... by bena on Friday November 05, 2021 @01:00PM (#29121956)

It's less defending Pfizer and questioning the poster's true motives.

Some people seem determined to do anything except take precautions laid out by infectious disease experts and take medicine specifically for this virus. And they're looking for any excuse to do so.

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Re:Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, de... by mensetmanusman on Friday November 05, 2021 @06:38PM (#29125476)

A diversity of people will have a diversity of risk registers, this is actually healthy for long term stability because mono cultures have associated risks.

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Re:Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, de... by vixen99 on Friday November 05, 2021 @11:44AM (#29120898)

No it's about one third of drugs according to a Yale study and it took a median of 4.2 years after the drugs were approved for safety concerns to be apparent.

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