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U.S. authorizes Merck pill as second at-home COVID-19 treatment

Dec 23 (Reuters) - The U.S. on Thursday authorized Merck & Co's(MRK.N)antiviral pill for COVID-19 fo

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It is also not recommended for people with severe kidney issues.\nMerck plans to ship hundreds of thousands of treatment courses in coming days and 1 million over the next few weeks. Pfizer plans to ship about 250,000 courses in the next month.\nAvailability of other treatments is the first consideration for doctors thinking of prescribing Merck's treatment, according to Patrizia Cavazzoni, the director of FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research.\nThe FDA has authorized intravenous treatments, mostly for hospital use, called monoclonal antibodies but availability is limited and efficacy against the Omicron variant is lower.\nFDA official John Farley said during a press briefing that GlaxoSmithKline's&nbsp;and Vir Biotech's&nbsp;antibody drug - which has been shown to work against Omicron - is expected to be in short supply this winter.\nMerck said that its treatment had advantages over the Pfizer pill.\n\"It doesn't require any second drug to boost its efficacy, and you can give it in a variety of special patient populations, including people who have significant issues with liver function or kidney function,\" Nick Kartsonis, Merck's senior vice president of clinical research for vaccines and infectious diseases, told Reuters.\n\"This approval comes at the right time since more COVID-19 treatments are needed to supplement the vaccination effort, especially in light of variants of concern,\" said Cantor Fitzgerald analyst Louise Chen.\nNearly 62% of people in the United States are fully vaccinated, leaving many Americans unprotected against a wave of Omicron infections. Two doses of the highly successful vaccine from Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE are only somewhat protective against infection with the Omicron variant while a third dose improves the immune response.\nMerck's and Pfizer's antiviral both work by preventing the virus from replicating. Merck's pill does so by introducing errors into the genetic code of the virus.\nSome of the FDA's experts have said that could lead to more troublesome variants.\nThere have also been some safety concerns around the drug because it may affect bone cartilage and growth.\nDue to that reason, Merck's drug is not authorized for use in patients younger than 18, the FDA said. The pill is not recommended for use during pregnancy, the agency added.\nThe agency advised that men of reproductive potential use a reliable method of birth control during treatment with molnupiravir, and for at least three months after the final dose.\nThe drug is meant to be taken twice a day - four pills each time - for five days, making a full treatment course 40 pills. 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It is also not recommended for people with severe kidney issues.\nMerck plans to ship hundreds of thousands of treatment courses in coming days and 1 million over the next few weeks. Pfizer plans to ship about 250,000 courses in the next month.\nAvailability of other treatments is the first consideration for doctors thinking of prescribing Merck's treatment, according to Patrizia Cavazzoni, the director of FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research.\nThe FDA has authorized intravenous treatments, mostly for hospital use, called monoclonal antibodies but availability is limited and efficacy against the Omicron variant is lower.\nFDA official John Farley said during a press briefing that GlaxoSmithKline's&nbsp;and Vir Biotech's&nbsp;antibody drug - which has been shown to work against Omicron - is expected to be in short supply this winter.\nMerck said that its treatment had advantages over the Pfizer pill.\n\"It doesn't require any second drug to boost its efficacy, and you can give it in a variety of special patient populations, including people who have significant issues with liver function or kidney function,\" Nick Kartsonis, Merck's senior vice president of clinical research for vaccines and infectious diseases, told Reuters.\n\"This approval comes at the right time since more COVID-19 treatments are needed to supplement the vaccination effort, especially in light of variants of concern,\" said Cantor Fitzgerald analyst Louise Chen.\nNearly 62% of people in the United States are fully vaccinated, leaving many Americans unprotected against a wave of Omicron infections. 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It is also not recommended for people with severe kidney issues.\nMerck plans to ship hundreds of thousands of treatment courses in coming days and 1 million over the next few weeks. Pfizer plans to ship about 250,000 courses in the next month.\nAvailability of other treatments is the first consideration for doctors thinking of prescribing Merck's treatment, according to Patrizia Cavazzoni, the director of FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research.\nThe FDA has authorized intravenous treatments, mostly for hospital use, called monoclonal antibodies but availability is limited and efficacy against the Omicron variant is lower.\nFDA official John Farley said during a press briefing that GlaxoSmithKline's and Vir Biotech's antibody drug - which has been shown to work against Omicron - is expected to be in short supply this winter.\nMerck said that its treatment had advantages over the Pfizer pill.\n\"It doesn't require any second drug to boost its efficacy, and you can give it in a variety of special patient populations, including people who have significant issues with liver function or kidney function,\" Nick Kartsonis, Merck's senior vice president of clinical research for vaccines and infectious diseases, told Reuters.\n\"This approval comes at the right time since more COVID-19 treatments are needed to supplement the vaccination effort, especially in light of variants of concern,\" said Cantor Fitzgerald analyst Louise Chen.\nNearly 62% of people in the United States are fully vaccinated, leaving many Americans unprotected against a wave of Omicron infections. Two doses of the highly successful vaccine from Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE are only somewhat protective against infection with the Omicron variant while a third dose improves the immune response.\nMerck's and Pfizer's antiviral both work by preventing the virus from replicating. Merck's pill does so by introducing errors into the genetic code of the virus.\nSome of the FDA's experts have said that could lead to more troublesome variants.\nThere have also been some safety concerns around the drug because it may affect bone cartilage and growth.\nDue to that reason, Merck's drug is not authorized for use in patients younger than 18, the FDA said. The pill is not recommended for use during pregnancy, the agency added.\nThe agency advised that men of reproductive potential use a reliable method of birth control during treatment with molnupiravir, and for at least three months after the final dose.\nThe drug is meant to be taken twice a day - four pills each time - for five days, making a full treatment course 40 pills. The treatment was priced at about $700 per course in a deal with the U.S. government for up to 5 million courses.\nThe U.S. government has ordered 10 million courses of the Pfizer drug at a price of $530 per course compares to the deal with Merck for as many as 5 million courses of molnupiravir at a price of $700 per course.\nMerck has said molnupiravir, which helps prevent the virus from replicating, should be effective against any variant, including the new Omicron variant.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":1015,"commentLimit":10,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"symbols":[],"verified":2,"subType":0,"readableState":1,"langContent":"CN","currentLanguage":"CN","warmUpFlag":false,"orderFlag":false,"shareable":true,"causeOfNotShareable":"","featuresForAnalytics":[],"commentAndTweetFlag":false,"andRepostAutoSelectedFlag":false,"upFlag":false,"length":4,"xxTargetLangEnum":"ZH_CN"},"commentList":[],"hasMoreComment":false,"orderType":2}