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Merck’s COVID-19 pill could carry serious safety concerns, scientists warn
Fox News ^ | 10/6/21 | Shiv Sudhakar

Posted on 10/06/2021 3:24:34 PM PDT by conservative98

Merck’s new COVID-19 pill, known as molnupiravir, headed for FDA review for emergency authorization, could potentially carry serious safety issues stemming from the method used to kill the virus, scientists warned, according to a report.

The oral antiviral medication integrates into the genetic makeup of the virus, causing a large number of mutations to destroy the virus. However, some laboratory tests indicated the drug’s ability to cause mutations in genetic material of mammalian cells, theoretically causing cancer or birth defects, Barron’s reported.

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KEYWORDS: anothereua; birthdefects; cancer; chinavirustreatment; covid1984; covid19pill; fauci; fauxci; fda; jonrick46; merck; molnupiravir; sideeffects; treatment; vaccine
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To: conservative98

You know what this boils down to? Logical risk analysis.

If a drug has not been in widespread use for 5-10 years you are a fool for taking it unless you are terminally it.


21 posted on 10/06/2021 3:50:54 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there..)
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To: jonrick46

There is your daily “pulled from your nether regions” “fact.”


22 posted on 10/06/2021 4:09:05 PM PDT by TigersEye (Resistance is not futile!)
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To: tflabo
These filthy, greedy Rat$ lambasted President Trump for mentioning it like he was spouting it off the top of his head.

The worst part of that is that Trump most likely got that info on HCQ and other therapeutics from Fauci, Birx and others of their ilk that were "advising" him.

Pres. Trump didn't study medicine. At what other point in his life would he have had an interest in those things? Who else would he have asked about it in early 2020?

Those scumbags set him up.

23 posted on 10/06/2021 4:16:28 PM PDT by TigersEye (Resistance is not futile!)
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To: conservative98

Kinda like all drugs?

More fear porn I see.


24 posted on 10/06/2021 4:22:09 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Retrofitted

It’s probably reformulated ivermectin.

Hence it probably works.

Can’t have that


25 posted on 10/06/2021 4:23:20 PM PDT by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house.... But the fact checkers said thein story was false!)
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To: cpforlife.org
I trust the horse paste over any new covid profit drug

I like mine on a half apple, with the seeds in.

26 posted on 10/06/2021 4:26:02 PM PDT by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: conservative98

Molnupiravir ©

Take the Red Pill ©

Active Ingredients

Disclaimer for the dim people: this is sarcasm

27 posted on 10/06/2021 4:27:56 PM PDT by Pollard (PureBlood)
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To: saintgermaine

Pretty much what I take.


28 posted on 10/06/2021 4:28:39 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: conservative98
Jeff Zients, White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator, also weighed in, adding: "This is a potential additional tool in our toolbox to protect people from the worst outcomes of COVID," but noted that vaccination remains the most effective tool against COVID-19, including preventing infection.

"We want to prevent infections, not just wait to treat them once they happen," Zients said.

I thought they had admitted the mRNA (might Really Need Another) vaccines don't prevent infection. Are they reversing their flip-flop?
29 posted on 10/06/2021 4:33:14 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: conservative98

I wouldn’t trust any new drugs big pharma puts out at this point.


30 posted on 10/06/2021 4:56:40 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith)
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To: conservative98
...stemming from the method used to kill the virus...


31 posted on 10/06/2021 4:59:01 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Qiviut

Rest assured, if Trump were still president, this drug would never see the light of day.

It could have been out last year, but we couldn’t have had that now, could we.

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/did-political-and-media-bias-stall-28a?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNDU3NDUyMCwicG9zdF9pZCI6NDIyNTg0MDcsIl8iOiJ6YnlhcyIsImlhdCI6MTYzMzU2NTE5NiwiZXhwIjoxNjMzNTY4Nzk2LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMTA0MiIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.xacSP9je2thCc7M3CFcnWA7zKOs3xKejYWgZccmqJJs


32 posted on 10/06/2021 5:12:17 PM PDT by phoneman08 (qwiyrqweopigradfdz oncmccRthym,.dadfjl,dz )
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To: conservative98

I am so excited. They keep coming up with great treatment options.


33 posted on 10/06/2021 5:29:12 PM PDT by wgmalabama (We will find out if the Vac or virus risk was the correct choice - can we put truth above narrative)
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To: conservative98

Did someone call off the professional pushers? Used to be they would be on a thread like this within 5 comments.


34 posted on 10/06/2021 6:09:13 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Leave. Us. Alone.)
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To: Flick Lives

I read it yesterday. I will look for it for you. No time now. The Mrs wants some honey-do’s.


35 posted on 10/06/2021 9:22:09 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Leftnicks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: Flick Lives

Here is this link that tells how they aren’t concerned with mutations in humans. There is this comment:

” Merck has conducted a comprehensive nonclinical program to characterize the safety profile of molnupiravir. This program included assays such as Big Blue and PIG-a designed to provide a robust measure of a drug or chemical’s ability to induce mutations in vivo. Animals were administered molnupiravir for longer and at higher doses (mg/Kg) than those employed in human studies. The totality of the data from these studies indicates that molnupiravir is not mutagenic or genotoxic in in vivo mammalian systems.”

You can read the entire article:

https://www.merck.com/news/ridgeback-biotherapeutics-and-merck-announce-preliminary-findings-from-a-phase-2a-trial-of-investigational-covid-19-therapeutic-molnupiravir/


36 posted on 10/06/2021 9:38:01 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Leftnicks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: saintgermaine

Bump!


37 posted on 10/06/2021 9:39:29 PM PDT by antceecee
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