How to Use ritonavir in a Sentence

ritonavir

noun
  • The course of treatment is two ’332 pills and one ritonavir, twice a day for five days.
    — Matthew Herper, STAT, 10 Nov. 2021
  • Giving it along with ritonavir slows its breakdown in the body, the company said.
    — Maggie Fox, CNN, 5 Nov. 2021
  • People with a prescription would take two Paxlovid pills and one ritonavir pill twice a day for five days.
    — Joseph Walker, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2021
  • Patients received a dose of ritonavir every 12 hours for five days.
    — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 5 Nov. 2021
  • Paxlovid is taken twice a day together with another pill called ritonavir.
    — Peter Landers, WSJ, 7 Feb. 2022
  • The culprit is likely ritonavir, a part of the drug that is used to boost levels of antiviral medicines, doctors say.
    — Alex Janin, WSJ, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Patients take two Paxlovid pills and one ritonavir pill twice a day for five days, for a total of 30 pills in a treatment course.
    — Matthew Herper, STAT, 25 Dec. 2021
  • Aluvia, which is also known as Kaletra, is a combination of lopinavir and ritonavir.
    — Ed Silverman, STAT, 27 Jan. 2020
  • Paxlovid is the brand name for the drug which is the combination of two generic medications - nirmatrelvir and ritonavir.
    — Leada Gore | [email protected], al, 21 July 2022
  • Opinavir and ritonavir are a combination sold as one drug that’s used to treat HIV infections.
    — Emily Bamforth, cleveland, 28 Mar. 2020
  • Patients were randomly assigned to receive a five-day course of either Paxlovid and a second drug, ritonavir, or a placebo.
    — Matthew Herper, STAT, 25 Dec. 2021
  • But the ritonavir in Paxlovid also can inhibit the metabolism of other drugs.
    — Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Paxlovid combines a new antiviral drug named nirmatrelvir and an older one called ritonavir and is administered as three pills given twice a day for five days.
    — Helen Regan and Adam Renton, CNN, 23 Dec. 2021
  • Those who are prescribed Paxlovid—which includes two separate, generic drugs, nirmatrelvir and ritonavir—take three pills by mouth twice daily for five days.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Lopinavir and ritonavir are combined and sold as Kaletra or Aluvia by AbbVie.
    — Helen Branswell, STAT, 18 Mar. 2020
  • In Paxlovid, that protease inhibitor comes with another drug, ritonavir, that keeps a person’s liver from breaking down the protease inhibitor.
    — Adam Rogers, Wired, 19 Nov. 2021
  • Doctors in Wuhan, China, gave 199 patients two pills of lopinavir/ritonavir twice a day plus standard care, or standard care alone.
    — Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS, 22 Mar. 2020
  • Or those who rebound may be part of the minority of people who don’t experience the right rate of drug release with the combination of nirmatrelvir and ritonavir.
    — Fionna M. D. Samuels, Scientific American, 8 Aug. 2022
  • Because lopinavir is quickly broken down in the human body by our own proteases, it is given with low levels of ritonavir, another protease inhibitor, that lets lopinavir persist longer.
    — Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS, 22 Mar. 2020
  • At least one of those trials will test the effectiveness of a combination of lopinavir and ritonavir, which is normally used to treat HIV.
    — Author: Melissa Healy, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Jan. 2020
  • Paxlovid is administered as three tablets (two tablets of nirmatrelvir and one tablet of ritonavir) taken together orally twice daily for five days, for a total of 30 tablets.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2021
  • The drug comes in a blister pack with two pills of Paxlovid and one of an antiviral, ritonavir, which enables Paxlovid to remain active longer at higher concentrations.
    — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 6 Nov. 2021
  • Pfizer says Paxlovid will come as a set of three pills – two tablets of nirmatrelvir and and one tablet of ritonavir – taken together twice a day over the course of five days, soon after the first sign of infection.
    — Alexander Tin, CBS News, 14 Dec. 2021
  • Paxlovid, which Pfizer expects to earn it $22 billion this year, is a combination of two antiviral drugs called nirmatrelvir and ritonavir.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 22 Apr. 2022
  • According to the agreement, the companies will be able to take out sublicenses to produce raw ingredients of nirmatrelvir, co-package it with ritonavir or both steps.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 18 Mar. 2022
  • Pfizer says its new antiviral drug against covid-19, ritonavir, is highly effective against the most serious cases of covid-19.
    — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 5 Nov. 2021
  • Two of the pills are an experimental antiviral called nirmatrelvir; the third pill is an existing HIV drug called ritonavir.
    — NBC News, 14 Dec. 2021
  • Enanta’s drug, called EDP-235, targets the coronavirus protease without the need for ritonavir.
    — Ryan Cross, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Last week, the first major study to investigate a combination of HIV drugs, lopinavir and ritonavir, for use in coronavirus patients found no benefit.
    — NBC News, 23 Mar. 2020
  • The Paxlovid cocktail consists of two tablets of the antiviral nirmatrelvir and one tablet of ritonavir, a drug that has long been used as what is known as a boosting agent in HIV regimens.
    — NBC News, 22 Dec. 2021

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