The Covid 19 pandemic has been taking new turns daily. With two consecutive years where the American population is not able to celebrate Christmas Festival and this act is not appreciated by many. But nothing can be done in this as this infection has been taking away the lives of thousands on a daily basis.
Pandemic Taking Over, Antiviral Pills Can Offer A Good Level Of Protection
As per the news, the omicron variant has already become the dominant version of the Covid 19 virus beating the delta variant with a good margin in just less than 10 days.
The Central Government has been taking various strict measures and precautionary actions to safeguard the lives of their citizens in the US.
Dr. Anthony Fauci who is considered the best doctor and also is the chief medical consultant of the US government has been continuously urging its citizens in the United States to get vaccinated and receive the booster shots as soon as possible.
The major reason behind such urgency is the transmissible rate carried by the new omicron variant in the US because of 50 mutants.
According to the US CDC, the initial vaccines are strong enough to handle the infection caused by the new strain of covid 19 and there must be some strong layer of protection available to fight against this version else it will lead to millions of hospital admissions and deaths in the US.
Right from adding booster shots in the mandatory list for the healthcare workers to authorizing two antiviral pills from Pfizer and Merck, the Central Government has been doing something or the other to reduce the cases in the nation and keep citizens protected and secured from the upcoming wave of omicron subtype.
The antiviral pills are considered to be very effective and the Food and Drug Administration has stated that they are very impressed by the results showcased by both these vaccine manufacturing companies in the US and after the thorough analysis of the results, the FDA approved antiviral pills from the 2 developers.
Pfizer’s vaccine, Paxlovid has been able to show extreme results by reducing the hospitalization and death rates amongst the severely infected patient of covid 19 by 90 percent which is a great achievement. On the Other hand, Merck’s antiviral pills showed some promising results of 50 percent.
It has been expected by the medical experts in the United States that Paxlovid will be the first choice and Merck will be the second one.
Once the patient has been tested and confirmed with the symptoms of coronavirus, the antiviral pill treatment will start immediately and there will be a complete course that includes 5-6 pills two times a day for five days.
Although the severity of the omicron variant is way less than the delta version, it is more contagious than the latter one. The expected hospitalization rate will render around 20 percent as compared to the 45 percent in the case of delta subtype.
