Prognosis
Covid Pill Will Be Scarce as States Divvy Up the First Batch
- First allocation of Pfizer’s Paxlovid pill to be parceled out
- California gets 6,180, New York 3,180 and Wyoming only 100
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Just like Covid-19 testing sites and vaccines, Covid-19 treatment pills will be in short supply for months until production can increase.
The federal distribution to states will be based on population, and it will likely be up to doctors to prescribe Pfizer Inc.’s Paxlovid. The National Institutes of Health said it will release recommendations on how to allocate treatments.