Good job Ron!
>I trust my own immune system and diet.
>Russian Faces: Something always seems off but you just can't quite pin down why.
"Smile!"
"Why on earth would I smile?"
>They really just identified by race and gender ?
>"Smile!"
History will figure that out on it's own.
https://www.jct.gov/publications/2021/jcx-45-21/
JCX-45-21 (November 04, 2021)
Estimated Budget Effects Of The Revenue Provisions Of Title XIII – Committee On Ways And Means, Of H.R. 5376, The “Build Back Better Act,” As Reported By The Committee On The Budget, With Modifications (Rules Committee Print 117-18)
The staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation has prepared estimates of the revenue provisions of Title XIII of H.R. 5376, The “Build Back Better Act,” as reported by the Committee on the Budget, with modifications. (Rules Committee Print 117-18)
file:///tmp/mozilla_flash0/x-45-21-1.pdf
>Pfizer says its Covid pill, used with an HIV drug, cuts the risk of hospitalization or death by 89%
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/05/pfizer-says-its-covid-pill-with-hiv-drug-cuts-the-risk-of-hospitalization-or-death-by-89percent.html
Pfizer says its Covid pill with HIV drug cuts the risk of hospitalization or death by 89%
Pfizer said its Covid-19 pill, used with an HIV drug, cut the risk of hospitalization or death by 89% in high-risk adults who’ve been exposed to the virus.
It’s now the second antiviral pill behind Merck’s to demonstrate strong effectiveness for treating Covid at the first sign of illness.
Pfizer said it plans to submit its data to the Food and Drug Administration “as soon as possible.”
Pfizer said Friday that its easy-to-administer Covid-19 pill, used in combination with a widely used HIV drug, cut the risk of hospitalization or death by 89% in high-risk adults who’ve been exposed to the virus.
It’s now the second antiviral pill behind Merck’s to demonstrate strong effectiveness for treating Covid at the first sign of illness. If cleared by regulators, it would likely be a game changer in the ongoing global pandemic fight.
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla told CNBC the company plans to submit its data to the Food and Drug Administration before Thanksgiving.
“I think this medicine will change the way things are happening right now that will save millions and millions of lives, it has the potential to do it,” Bourla said in an interview on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” He said the company has “the capacity right now of 500 million pills,” which he said translates to 50 million treatments. “The very high efficacy comes even to us as a surprise, exceeds our most visionary expectations we had for that.”
Pfizer’s pill, scientifically known as PF-07321332, is part of a class of medicines called protease inhibitors and works by inhibiting an enzyme the virus needs to replicate in human cells. Protease inhibitors are used to treat other viral pathogens such as HIV and hepatitis C.
The HIV drug helps slow the metabolism, or breakdown, of Pfizer’s pill in order for it to remain active in the body for longer periods of time at higher concentrations, the company said.
The company said its data on the drug is based on a mid-to-late stage study of 1,219 adults who had at least one underlying medical condition and a laboratory-confirmed infection within a five-day period. Participants were also given a low dose of ritonavir, a medication commonly used in combination treatments for HIV.
Pfizer said there were six hospitalizations and zero deaths out of the 607 trial participants who received the pill in combination with the HIV drug within five days of symptom onset. That compares with 41 hospitalizations and 10 deaths out of the 612 people who received a placebo.
“These data suggest that our oral antiviral candidate, if approved by regulatory authorities, has the potential to save patients’ lives, reduce the severity of COVID-19 infections, and eliminate up to nine out of ten hospitalizations,” Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said in a statement.
Unlike Gilead Sciences’ intravenous drug remdesivir, Pfizer’s and Merck’s drugs can be taken by mouth. While vaccinations remain the best form of protection against the virus, health experts hope pills like these will keep the disease from progressing in those who do get infected and prevent trips to the hospital.
Merck and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics said Oct. 1 that they’ve developed a drug that, when administered alone, reduces the risk of hospitalization or death by around 50% for patients with mild or moderate cases of Covid.
The antiviral pill made by Merck was approved by Britain’s medicines regulator on Thursday.
June Raine, chief executive of the U.K.’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, said that Merck’s pill will greatly facilitate the treatment of Covid, a disease that has killed more than 5 million people globally and caused tremendous strain on health systems.
Bourla told CNBC in April that Pfizer’s pill could be available to Americans by the end of this year.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritonavir
>Jill Biden on Monday to kick off effort urging parents to vaccinate kids ages 5-11
>A re-elected Liberal government will: No longer provide charity status to anti-abortion organizations (for example, Crisis Pregnancy Centres) that provide dishonest counseling to women about their rights and about the options available to them at all stages of the pregnancy.
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