Name: Local doctor says NC doesn't have enough pills that 'cure' COVID
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Description: There's a coronavirus treatment pill that could reduce the chance of a patient being hospitalized by 90%, local doctors say, but the state is not receiving enough doses.

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There's a coronavirus treatment pill that could reduce the chance of a patient being hospitalized by 90%, local doctors say, but the state is not receiving enough doses.

HE EVENTUALLY MADE IT TO WHERE HE WAS GOING. >> WHATEVER YOU GOTTA DO, YOU GOTTA DO I SUPPOSE. THANK YOU. >>> THE NEWEST WAY DOCTORS ARE TREATING COVID IS WITH PRESCRIPTION PILLS. THE MEDICATIONS ARE STARTING TO BECOME MORE AVAILABLE IN NORTH CAROLINA. JOE FISHER IS INVESTIGATING HOW THE PILLS STACK UP TO OTHER TREATMENTS. >> Reporter: TWO COVID PILLS HAVE BEEN COMING TO DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FOR ABOUT A MONTH NOW. SUPPLY IS INCREASING BUT DOCTORS SAY IN SOME CASES AT RISK PATIENTS ARE ACTUALLY TURNING THE PILLS DOWN. WHAT COULD BE A GAME CHANGER ARE COVID PILLS DESIGNED TO KEEP PEOPLE OUT OF THE HOSPITAL. >> IT'S A CURE FOR COVID-19. >> Reporter: PAXLOVID IS IN HIGHER DEMAND REDUCING BY 90% COMPARED TO THE 30%. >> I WOULD PREFER PEOPLE USE THE ORAL THERAPY. DOWN AT THE BOTTOM, THAT IS THERE FOR THE RIGHT PERSON BUT NOT THE TOP SHELF. >> Reporter: THE SUPPLY IS SLOWLY INCREASING. IT OFFERS SIMILAR PROTECTION TO A MONOCOLONAL ANTIBODY REQUIRING IV INFUSION. THE DOCTOR SAYS NOT EVERYONE IS JUMPING TO TAKE THE PILLS. >> PEOPLE ARE BEING OFFERED THIS. YOU ARE EXPLAINING THAT THIS IS, YOU KNOW, 90 PLUS PERCENT EFFECTIVE. YOU TAKE IT AT HOME, DON'T NEED TO COME IN. THEY'LL SAYING NO, I WILL COME FOR THE INFUSION? >> THEY ARE. I THINK IT IS A PERCEPTION PROBLEM. THE PERCEPTION IS AN INFUSION IS MORE POTENT THAN A PILL. >> Reporter: PFIZER IS STILL VERY MUCH SCALING UP PRODUCTION OF PAXLOVID. NPR OBTAINED PFIZER'S CONTRACT WITH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WHICH SHOWS MOST OF THE 20 MILLION COURSES ORDERED WILL BE DELIVERED IN THE SPRING AND SUMMER FROM 100,000 COURSES IN JANUARY TO 400,000 A MONTH BY MARCH AND 3.25 MILLION COURSES IN SEPTEMBER. >> THAT WOULD BE GREAT. WHAT WE REALLY NEED IS RIGHT NOW. >> Reporter: THE PILLS REDUCE HOSPITALIZATION BUT THE DOCTOR SAYS THEY DO NOT PROVE TO REDUCE COVID SYMPTOMS OR GET PEOPLE BACK TO WORK QUICKER. >> THIS IS NOT FOR THE HEALTHY COLLEGE STUDENT. WE SHOULD BE GIVING THIS TO THE CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY PATIENT, THE PERSON WITH DIABETES WHO IS OVER WEIGHT OR OBESE. >> Reporter: A NEW TOOL FOR THOSE AT HIGH RISK TO FREE UP HOSPITAL SPACE STILL BEING STRAINED. THERE IS SOME IMMEDIACY WITH THE PILLS AND THAT IS BECAUSE THEY ARE BEST TAKEN WITHIN FIVE DAYS OF WHEN SYMPTOMS FIRST START. WHERE CAN YOU GET THEM? THERE IS A FEDERAL DATABASE WHERE YOU CAN TRACK THERAPEUTICS NEAR YOU. WE HAVE POSTED A LINK ON WRAL.COM AND THE WRAL NEWS APP.

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I'm meteorologist K Campbell in the severe weather center. It's feeling like summer again. On Thursday, high temperatures reach the upper eighties and we could come awfully close to 90 in Fayetteville. It's possible. Fayetteville sees the 1st 90 degree day of the year. The average first day in the nineties in Fayetteville is, is May 3rd and May twelveth here in the triangle. 87 in the triangle and 85 in rocks, a lot more sunshine in the forecast tomorrow. Those clouds that we saw, they're going to be clearing out overnight. So get some fresh air, enjoy it while you can. We're not going to see these warm days every day for our seven day. We'll wake up to temperatures in the low sixties warming up to 80 degrees by noon and upper eighties for highs during the afternoon. We've got the sunshine tomorrow, but a lot of us could really use the rain, especially anybody who's starting with their gardening, our rainfall for the month of April 66 inches. So that's more than an inch below normal. I would recommend to keep watering your gardens. We do have some opportunities for rain, but none of these rounds look like a widespread soaking rain. I would go ahead and keep watering. We've got a 40% chance of storms on the way. Friday and Friday, we need to keep an eye on the potential for a severe storm. Tonight. We're seeing showers dissipate as they move closer to us. And that trend should continue. We dry out throughout the day tomorrow with the sunshine and then here comes Friday's front in the morning, we'll see some rain in the mountains kind of falling apart. But as this front gets closer to us during the afternoon, as we're heating up, we'll have a more energized atmosphere and this should create some lift to generate some scattered storms throughout the afternoon and evening. It's about a 40% chance that you would see one at your house. The issue is pretty much anywhere in our viewing area. There could be a severe storm. That's why there's level one out of five threat for severe storms, Friday. The threats, damaging wind gusts and hail your seven day forecast shows some big changes are on the way for the weekend. We are cooling down, especially on Sunday, just 68 for the high falling into the 40 Sunday night into Monday morning, Monday, mostly cloudy, some lingering sprinkles possible. And then next week, temperatures are right back in the mid seventies, which is pretty much on par with where we should be this time of year

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Local doctor says NC doesn't have enough pills that 'cure' COVID

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