Ensuring the at-home Covid-19 antiviral pill reaches the patients who’d most benefit from it will be a thorny task for regulators and health care providers
But supplies of the pill will likely be limited at first. The federal government has purchased 3.1 million courses of molnupiravir, which it will acquire between the date of FDA authorization and early next year. It has the option of purchasing an additional two million doses later, if needed.
In Merck’s trials, however, the pill was only tested on unvaccinated adults, which makes some health experts wonder if the pills will only be available to that group. With an unvaccinated population at just over 99 million people, according to the Centers for Disease Control, three million doses is “a drop in the bucket,” said Eunice Neeley, a preventive medicine specialist and primary care provider based in New Orleans, Louisiana.
“That takes time, and time is not free,” said Kurt Proctor, senior vice president of strategic initiatives at the community pharmacists group.
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