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WBAL Radio 1090 AM - Promising COVID-19 antiviral pill, Paxlovid, in scarce supply, as doctors, patients compete for access

Kobi Wolf/Bloomberg via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Dr. Albert Lam, a geriatrician who works with nursing home patients in Palo Alto, California, was excited to be among the first to prescribe the new antiviral pill Paxlovid after one of his patients tested positive for COVID-19. Hailed as a "game-changer" in the pandemic, Paxlovid is a drug made by Pfizer that if taken within five days of being diagnosed reduces the chance of hospitalization and death by 88% for people who are at high risk of severe illness. The treatment has proved so promising that President Joe Biden included it in...

On October 6, 2021, California Governor Newson signed Assembly Bill No. 749, which, among other things, established minimum training requirements for medical directors of skilled...

Print It is a simple gesture, really. A glance over the shoulder. How many of us have done this? But for the Rev. Gilbert Sim, that glance tells the grim reality his San Diego congregants — and Asian Americans around the country — have been living. “Many of us actually are terrified by the incidents, by how this whole thing got escalated so fast,” says Sim, who is the pastor of First Chinese Southern Baptist Church in Clairemont Mesa. “All of a sudden, there are thousands of cases.” And this is when he turns his head and looks over his shoulder. “We don’t like that feeling,”...