{"id":1836487,"date":"2023-02-06T08:36:11","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T13:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1836487"},"modified":"2023-02-06T08:37:08","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T13:37:08","slug":"positive-covid-test-result-no-longer-required-to-prescribe-paxlovid-lagevrio-fda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/positive-covid-test-result-no-longer-required-to-prescribe-paxlovid-lagevrio-fda\/","title":{"rendered":"Positive COVID Test Result No Longer Required to Prescribe Paxlovid, Lagevrio: FDA"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpositive-covid-test-result-no-longer-required-to-prescribe-paxlovid-lagevrio-fda%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1836487&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/pfizer-paxlovid-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Doctors and pharmacists are now able to prescribe COVID-19 drugs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-paxlovid\">Paxlovid<\/a> Lagevrio to patients with a negative test for infection, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-fda\">FDA<\/a>Wednesday<\/p>\n<p>Pfizer\u2019s Paxlovid and Merck\u2019s Lagevrio were granted emergency-use authorizations by the FDA in December 2021. Since then, both oral pills have been used postinfectionally for patients with mild-to-moderate symptoms of COVID.<\/p>\n<p>The FDA stated in the revised authorizations that health professionals may be authorized to use the new authorizations. \u201cno longer require positive results of direct SARS-CoV-2 viral testing\u201d Before providing the drugs to patients. Instead, authorizations require that all adults and children 12 years old and older have an authorization. \u201ccurrent diagnosis of mild-to-moderate COVID-19.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe agency continues to recommend that providers use direct SARS-CoV-2 viral testing to help diagnose COVID-19,\u201d In a statement, the FDA stated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe recognize that, in rare instances, individuals with a recent known exposure (e.g. a household contact) who develop signs and symptoms consistent with COVID-19 may be diagnosed by their health care provider as having COVID-19 even if they have a negative direct SARS-CoV-2 test result,\u201d The federal agency was added. \u201cIn such instances, their health care provider may determine that treatment with authorized therapeutics may be appropriate if the patient reports mild-to-moderate symptoms of COVID-19 and is at high risk for progression to severe COVID-19.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The relaxation on Paxlovid\u2019s pharmacy access comes as Pfizer anticipates significant drops in revenue, largely due to a decline in sales of COVID-19 products.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/investors.pfizer.com\/Investors\/News\/news-details\/2023\/PFIZER-REPORTS-RECORD-FULL-YEAR-2022-RESULTS-AND-PROVIDES-FULL-YEAR-2023-FINANCIAL-GUIDANCE\/default.aspx\">report detailing its fourth quarter<\/a> The company also projected 2022 earnings and 2023 forecasts. It stated that there would likely be a 64% drop in 2023 revenue from COVID vaccines. The company also predicts that Paxlovid&#8217;s revenue will drop by 58 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>Pfizer expects its 2023 revenue to drop between $67 billion-$71 billion due to the declines. New York City&#8217;s company reported a revenue of 100.3 billion in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Pfizer expects Paxlovid to be sold for $8 billion by 2023. Pfizer claimed that it made more than $18.9billion from the postinfection drug between 2022 and 2023.<\/p>\n<p>In January, following an unsuccessful negotiation between Beijing and Pfizer, China\u2019s National Healthcare Security Administration said it won\u2019t include Paxlovid in its national reimbursement plan.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, Beijing offered a price that was lower than what Pfizer executives would accept as a starting price. \u201cmiddle-income country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChina is the world\u2019s second-largest economy, and I don\u2019t think it should pay less than El Salvador, which is a poor country,\u201d Albert Bourla is the chief executive of Pfizer. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/healthcare-pharmaceuticals\/pfizer-not-talks-licensing-generic-covid-pill-china-2023-01-10\/\">reported Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doctors and pharmacists are now able to prescribe COVID-19 drugs Paxlovid Lagevrio to patients with a negative test for infection, the U.S. Food and Drug AdministrationFDAWednesday Pfizer\u2019s Paxlovid and Merck\u2019s Lagevrio were granted emergency-use authorizations by the FDA in December 2021. Since then, both oral pills have been used postinfectionally for patients with mild-to-moderate symptoms &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1836490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[4127,8468,17760,11716,3994,17759,5195,7255],"class_list":["post-1836487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-covid","tag-fda","tag-lagevrio","tag-paxlovid","tag-positive","tag-prescribe","tag-required","tag-result"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1836487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1836490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1836487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1836487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1836487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}