Your point essentially about comorbidities is tired and irrelevant. I mean have you ever been to America.....? Walmart? Any buffet? More than half our population here is overweight or obese, and many other relatively skinny people have diabetes, hypertension, heart issues, etc. Basically... WE HAVE HEALTH PROBLEMS.
One does not simply see patient after patient who's been fat for 40 years, got covid, and died within 2 weeks of having it and say wow looks like obesity killed them.
What I mean is the pill (which was made specifically for preventing death/ hospitalization from covid...differentiating it from other pill options) does exactly that... Or at least they claim it is 80+% effective anyway... Considering that cases are skyrocketing again I have a feeling we will have more information on the effectiveness of the pill within the next month.
I am sure there are people who have had problems from the vaccine. It's been given to millions and millions of people. I just don't know any of them. I do have family and friends who have had severe persisting problems, been hospitalized, and who have died from covid though.
Your point about anyone caring about the covid pill is probably valid... I was thinking it might save vaccine skeptics but they probably are going to be equally skeptical of the pill. Also my understanding is that similar to the vaccine, if you're already on your deathbed, it might be too late.