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Biden COVID Advisor Urges Greater Paxlovid Use: ‘People Have Died Unnecessarily’

<p />Paxlovid is an oral antiviral pill to treat COVID; data show it reduces serious illness, hospitalization and cases of Long COVID. <p />That’s why Michael Osterholm, Ph.D. wants more doctors to prescribe it. He serves as a White House advisor and is director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota. <p />He says, “People have died unnecessarily because they were unable to get Paxlovid when they could have and should have.” <p />This compelling conversation with hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter is available now.