US President Joe Biden has announced that he has purchased 10 million doses of a drug under development by pharmaceutical giant Pfizer to control the growth of the new coronavirus, and will promptly provide it to the public if regulatory authorities permit it. increase.
The drug being developed by Pfizer is expected to help prevent the onset of the new coronavirus from becoming more severe in adults with mild to moderate symptoms and at risk of becoming more severe. An application was submitted to the US FDA = Food and Drug Administration to allow emergency use.
President Biden announced on the 18th that he had purchased 10 million doses of this Pfizer drug.
If the regulatory agency gives permission in the announcement, it will promptly provide it to the public free of charge, and will start distributing it to medical institutions from the end of next month.
Merck, a major US pharmaceutical company, has also applied for an emergency use authorization from the FDA as a drug for the new coronavirus, and the Biden administration is expected to secure 3.1 million doses.
President Biden is working to secure medicines to prevent the aggravation of the new coronavirus, while reminding the public that vaccines are the most effective measure.