German health minister in move to boost COVID drug Paxlovid use
The pill, which won conditional European marketing approval in January, is given to infected people who are at high risk of progression to severe illness.;
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Frankfurt: Germany's health minister said on Sunday he will push for more prescriptions of Pfizer's oral COVID-19 antiviral treatment Paxlovid by family doctors to reduce severe cases of the disease.
"A system involving family doctors will be prepared to administer this far too rarely-used COVID life saver more routinely," he wrote on Twitter on Sunday, adding that sufficient stockpiles were available.
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