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Showing Original Post only (View all)Science wins. COVID-19 deaths/hospitalizations could soon be rare... no vaccine required. [View all]
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/mercks-covid-19-pill-cuts-risk-death-hospitalization-by-50-study-2021-10-01/Oct 1 (Reuters) - An antiviral pill developed by U.S. drugmaker Merck & Co (MRK.N) could half the chances of dying or being hospitalized for those most at risk of contracting severe COVID-19, with experts hailing it as a potential breakthrough in how the virus is treated.
If it gets authorization, molnupiravir, which is designed to introduce errors into the genetic code of the virus, would be the first oral antiviral medication for COVID-19.
Merck and partner Ridgeback Biotherapeutics said they plan to seek U.S. emergency use authorization for the pill as soon as possible and to make regulatory applications worldwide.
"An oral antiviral that can impact hospitalization risk to such a degree would be game changing," said Amesh Adalja, senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.
Note: read the article. The clinical studies are so successful they've been requested to stop the trials and go straight to approval under emergency use.
Basically... it's Tamiflu for C19.
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Science wins. COVID-19 deaths/hospitalizations could soon be rare... no vaccine required. [View all]
WarGamer
Oct 2021
OP
They won't even have to work too hard on this one, they'll spin the drug's mechanism of action
Ftrump
Oct 2021
#60
Still really early but 0 deaths in trials while the placebo group had 8 deaths
WarGamer
Oct 2021
#12
I'll bet these pills are the perfect size to hide the Bill Gates microchips.
Earth-shine
Oct 2021
#17
Thank you. We should not in any way be discouraging people from getting vaxed NT
EleanorR
Oct 2021
#50
This is such awesome news! There is a huge light at the end of the tunnel and I can see
beaglelover
Oct 2021
#42
Sadly, this was in the news several months ago. They even targeted end of 2021 for release.
Mr. Ected
Oct 2021
#44
Why can't they have a vaccine that "introduces errors into the AIDS virus"?
Stargleamer
Oct 2021
#45
Honestly, that drug sounds like what the anti-vaxxers accuse the vaccines of being
Azathoth
Oct 2021
#64
I'll admit the phrase "introduce errors into the genetic code of the virus"
Steelrolled
Oct 2021
#68