Posted on 03/30/2025 10:29:42 AM PDT by bitt
An international clinical trial has identified a medication that can help prevent symptomatic COVID-19 in people exposed within households. The results could be particularly important for families where someone is at high risk of serious complications from the illness.
The drug, ensitrelvir, is already approved in Japan to treat mild to moderate COVID cases. The SCORPIO-PEP trial, however, has demonstrated that it also has the potential to protect against illness. Uninfected people who began taking the antiviral within 72 hours of symptoms first appearing in a household member were significantly less likely to contract COVID-19 than people who were given an inactive placebo.
Among the more than 2,000 trial participants in the United States and abroad, 9% of the participants taking the placebo developed confirmed cases of COVID-19. That's compared with only 2.9% of people taking ensitrelvir—a 67% reduction in risk of COVID-19 illness.
"In addition to vaccination, post-exposure prophylaxis with timely use of an oral antiviral would be a valuable way to help prevent COVID-19 illness in people who have been exposed, especially people at high risk for severe disease," said University of Virginia School of Medicine emeritus professor Frederick G. Hayden, MD, who helped design the trial and presented the trial results today at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in San Francisco.
Conducted between June 2023 and September 2024, the SCORPIO-PEP trial was double-blinded, meaning neither the researchers nor the uninfected household participants knew whether they were receiving ensitrelvir or placebo. Household members who took a 5-day course of ensitrelvir after exposure to a proven COVID illness were much less likely to get COVID but no more likely to suffer adverse events than those who took placebo.
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No Thanks! Did not fall for this jive the first time, not going to start now..
Drug here, drug there...shot here, shot there...havent they got it in water systems yet?
If it's being sold, I don't want it. Period.
Why worry about it. Five years after the world’s greatest psych op, more and more people are starting to understand it was a scam. Nobody except the paranoid even think about it any more.
Maybe.
They will not recommend ivermectin. No matter what.
Just in time for five years too late.
I thought that’s what the vaccine was supposed to do? /s
Took another big dose of “nope” just now.
But but but,,, I thought that was/is what the vax was for???????
No thanks to either!
Why are they still pushing this? They never do this for colds, stomach viruses, or cold sores.
2 original shots and 4 or 5 boosters my sister took. She just called me earlier today to say she has covid. It was hard not to laugh.
The psyop continues...
So - what are covid rates and survival rates these days?
Wife an I both over 70 - neither took the jabs - she got covid 2 years ago and I had symptoms about 4 days after hers started...doctor down her (MS Gulf Coast) said the drug that Big Pharm wanted to treat it with had too many “issues” so she opted to treat the symptoms - cold meds, antibiotics and steroid inhaler for wife. I just used cold meds with Mucinex D - we were both never really ill and were feeling decent within 4 days of initial onsets - totally normal by day 7.
They lost me at “covid-19 drug” .
Exactly. And toss a bit of magnesium in there, too.
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