The FDA has given emergency use authorization to two oral antiviral drugs now available in Alaska. State Pharmacist Coleman Cutchins said each has a different profile of who it can benefit, but both are meant for people who are considered high risk.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The Food and Drug Administration has given emergency use authorization to two oral antiviral drugs that are now available in Alaska. Paxlovid, which is made by Pfizer, is intended for patients 12 years of age and up. Molnupiravir, made by Merck, is approved for patients 18 and older.
“Patients need to start them within five days of that first symptom, or five days of a positive test, whichever comes first,” Cutchins said. “Patients do have to be symptomatic, and they do have to have risk for severe disease.”conditions that might put people more at riskThe pills are only available with a doctor’s prescription, but Cutchins said filling that prescription at your local pharmacy could be tricky, since right now the state has only received a very limited supply.
“In many ways, you know having an oral drug, if it’s equally effective to a monoclonal, is vastly superior to, you know, a sterile drug that we have to take people to an injection center and inject them with,” he said. “You know, handing them a bottle of pills is way easier than that whole set up.”
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