The Biden administration is expected to announce this week it is purchasing 10 million courses of treatment Pfizer’s covid pill, a multibillion dollar investment in a medication that officials hope will help change the trajectory of the pandemic by staving off many hospitalizations and deaths, according to two people with knowledge of the transaction.

-call me Nostradamus, but I called this.

Officials see Pfizer’s pill, and another by Merck, as potential gamechangers to tame the pandemic.