Coronavirus Notebook: Pfizer Files Paxlovid In EU, France Updates Treatment Advice As Omicron Proliferates
Executive Summary
NRx Pharmaceuticals has again filed for a US emergency use authorization for aviptadil, this time for critically ill patients with no other options. The UK has said that there is currently no need to give a second booster vaccine.
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