ENTA's EDP-235 is plainly more potent than Paxlovid. And without the manifold drug-drug interactions consequent to ritonavir, EDP-235 should be considerably safer than Paxlovid too.
The clean safety profile of EDP-235 is the biggest news in today's dataset. That's because the MoA of EDP-235 is well understood, so efficacy at the doses selected for phase-2 is almost a fait accompli.