US FDA allows pharmacists to prescribe Pfizer's COVID pill
Use of the pill, authorized to treat newly infected, at-risk people to prevent severe illness, has jumped in recent weeks as infections rise.
Paxlovid, Pfizer's coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pill, is seen manufactured in Ascoli, Italy(photo credit: PFIZER/HANDOUT VIA REUTERS)ByREUTERSUpdated: