A pill for Covid, seriously...

[pbmus]

Link to tweet

[Hugh_Lebowski]

3. +1 excellent!!!

[msongs]

2. suspecting the pill is only for those already infected, not a preventative nt

[RockRaven]

4. If the horse paste fiasco is any guide, it will be misused by some once it is available...

[DBoon]

13. or due to some weird but widely believed conspiracy theory...

... it will modify your DNA, make you magnetic, or allow Bill Gates to spy on you to sell the next Windows upgrade through subliminal suggestion

[Maru Kitteh]

11. I think (could be wrong) Dr. Sanjay Gupta said it could be used as

prophylaxis following an exposure.

[Salviati]

17. For sure, that's actually what they're stating.

And it's not as good as being vaccinated, as we can see that vaccination reduces hospitalization and death by about a factor more than 10, but this will help with the crush that our hospitals are going through, if we can clear out half of the plague rats who are taking up ~90% of the hospital beds.

[RockRaven]

5. Those conspiracy-minded people who distrust Pharmaceutical Co.s on principle will note that

Merck tried to make a vaccine and failed, and so lost out on how to get rich from this disease, and will say this medicine doesn't really work and it's just Merck's way of profiting from the pandemic.

They will start in 3... 2... 1...




[this prediction is in no way a defense of Merck/pharma companies in other contexts]

[Maru Kitteh]

12. Anything the nutjob Frontline Dr.s are not selling will be decried as

a subversive plot to "capture" people who were smart enough to escape the plot to JAB everyone!

If they can fit a microchip through a 25g needle . . . . shit . . . they can fit a whole FARM of microchips in a pill!

[VarryOn]

6. Finally, some good news to end the week! Nt

[Girard442]

7. Cutting hospitalizations and deaths in half is a very, very good thing.

Before anyone cancels their vax appointments, remember that "cut in half" does not equal "reduce to zero".

[brewens]

8. Start a rumor that it's really just hydroxychloroquine. That's the reason they wouldn't let

people have it. They were setting up this scam!

[crickets]

9. Excellent news, especially the potential for treating long COVID.

The twitter thread is long but packed with info and well worth the read. Lots of retweets, articles cited, etc.

Unrolled thread for easier reading:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1443880627837734946.html

[Sancho]

10. Is the a red pill and a blue pill?

[Turbineguy]

14. And we know....

it's easier to put a secret Bill Gates chip in a pill than an injectable fluid.

[ripcord]

15. This is great news

But now we will have to keep telling the anti vaxxers it isn't a replacement for the vaccines.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

18. Well, that's nice.

But is it better than vaccines in preventing hospitalizations and deaths?

[sarcasmo]

19. 600 dollars like the Epipen.