Pfiz­er's Paxlovid on­ly helped se­niors avoid hos­pi­tal­iza­tion and death, new NE­JM study finds

Us­age of Pfiz­er’s Covid-19 treat­ment Paxlovid has spiked across the US in re­cent months, with more than 2 mil­lion cours­es ad­min­is­tered dur­ing this lat­est Omi­cron wave since June, po­ten­tial­ly sav­ing many from hos­pi­tal­iza­tion or death.

But a new ob­ser­va­tion­al study pub­lished in the New Eng­land Jour­nal of Med­i­cine on Wednes­day evening found that Paxlovid on­ly worked among pa­tients 65 years of age or old­er, with no ev­i­dence of ben­e­fit found in younger adults.

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