For those of us who own PFE directly and or indirectly, what's the thinking in your area of the world, did they advise you take Paxlovid ?


In Quebec, the government does not promote it heavily but makes it available for free, basically to people over 60 that want it and to anyone who has chronic diseases that make them at high risk of complications from COVID. You need to have a confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection and have had symptomes for less than 5 days, and there are a number of contra-indications (mostly because the ritonavir component of the drug makes the active nirmatrelvir part last longer (ritonavir slows the hepatic metabolism of nirmatrelvir) but it also slows the metabolism of a bunch of other meds like blood thinners and a variety of cardiac meds.

Anecdotally, it doesn't seem to be used very much, although I personally would take it if I were very sick.

I briefly owned shares of Pfizer because I thought Paxlovid was going to be a big deal, but I quickly exited the investment as it became clear to me that sales were never going to amount to as much as I thought initially.

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