New COVID-19 pills may keep recently diagnosed patients out of hospital, company says

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New COVID-19 pills may keep recently diagnosed patients out of hospital, company says.

Pharmaceutical company Merck says Molnupiravir, an antiviral, could reduce people's risk of dying from the virus.over five days, shortly after COVID-19 diagnosis, may slash the risk of being hospitalized or dying of the virus by 50%, according to preliminary results announced by pharmaceutical companies Merck and Ridgeback.

Right now, most COVID-19 patients are sent home and told to monitor their symptoms. Having an effective pill to offer them would"make a difference," Del Rio added. The vaccine status of the trial volunteers was not disclosed in the press release, but doctors say pills like this should never be taken as an alternative to vaccines, which have been tested in hundreds of thousands of people across massive clinical trials, and are the most powerful way to dramatically reduce the risk of being hospitalized or dying of COVID -- and reduce the risk of becoming infected in the first place.

"What we really need is the Tamiflu, if you will, for COVID-19," Dr. Todd Ellerin, the director of infectious diseases at South Shore Health and an ABC News Med Unit contributor, said."It's possible that molnupiravir could be the agent."

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They couldn’t make money on Ivermectin so they came up with this synthetic version so they could patent it an rake in the $$$

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Names of drugs are getting weirder & weirder. How the hell did they come up w/ this unpronounceable one?

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The have been named Merkmectin, Pfizermectin and Modmectin, they transformed the outlawed horse paste into a pill. With patents attached it will be a Money Maker

Do they send you straight to the graveyard instead

Which side of the political aisle do these polls fall under? Or can we not politicize these for a change

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Read this last night, I hope it’s there now and affordable. It would be awesome to have something to fight this with.

If we wrap the pill with cheese, we might have a chance of getting anti-vaxers to take it!

There’s also some 2 hour fluid drip the hospital offered some woman who had tested positive for Covid when I was in the ER the other night. They said ‘her body was compatible with it’. What ‘it’ was… idk

What's inside, Ivermectin and HCQ, at a higher cost.? Big Pharma to the rescue.

Is hidin and the democrat/marxists gunna blacklist this like they did the other therapeutics, leading to tens of thousands of deaths? Add those deaths to the nursing home deaths and the democrat/marxists are directly responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths.

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1.7 million at 1 billion dollars..sounds expensive compares to a vaccine 95% effective for $30

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