China’s elites are stockpiling provides of Paxlovid, Pfizer’s Covid-19 antiviral drug, and giving it away to curry favour with enterprise associates as an unprecedented Covid wave sweeps the nation, leaving hospitals stripped of assets and atypical folks struggling to entry medicine.
A number of private and non-private hospitals instructed the Monetary Occasions that the drug, which is extensively obtainable within the west, was both out of inventory or solely obtainable to sufferers with extreme underlying…