if successful and approved by the u.s. food and drug administration, the drug could be distributed across the u.s. by the end of the year, bourla said on the cnbc television show squawk box.
being able to take the pill at home, bourla said , would be a ‘game-changer’.
the drug contains an antiviral code called pf-07321332. classified as a ‘protease inhibitor’, the code is designed to inhibit the ‘spine’ of the virus cell and prevent it from replicating in human cells.
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researchers at pfizer began work on the pill last summer and by july had developed the first seven milligrams — the size of a raindrop — of the compound, the company’s director of medicinal chemistry, dafydd owen, told a private symposium in march.