Later this week, the FDA plans to approve, as the first outpatient COVID drugs, therapeutics that are extremely dangerous and unproven, even as the agency goes to war against cheap, safe, and proven drugs with a track record of no serious adverse events.
Pfizer is about to buy Arena Pharmaceuticals for $6.7 billion. Arena is a biopharmaceutical company focused in part on cardiovascular and inflammatory medicines to a global patient cohort.
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday it had received reports of eight cases of myocarditis in children aged 5-11 years who received Pfizer/BioNTech's Covid-19 shot.