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Seeking a Pill to Cure COVID-19: Drugmakers Eye Alternative to Vaccines
The Japan Times ^ | May 28, 2021 | AFP

Posted on 05/29/2021 3:36:16 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Prevention is better than cure — but when it comes to COVID-19, what happens when people can't get the vaccine, don't want it or they're immunosuppressed and it fails to stop infection?

The hunt is on for a coronavirus treatment that can be taken as a pill soon after a confirmed positive, halting the disease in its tracks so that cases that might have been severe end up being nothing more than a bad cold.

Several companies are working on so-called oral antivirals, which would mimic what the drug Tamiflu does for influenza. "It's great that we have vaccine rollout that has been significant, but it certainly will not be taken by everybody in our population, and not everybody who takes the vaccine will have a full response to it," said David Hirschwerk, an infectious diseases physician at Northwell Health in New York.

(Excerpt) Read more at japantimes.co.jp ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine; Science
KEYWORDS: covid19; pharmaceuticals; vaccines
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1 posted on 05/29/2021 3:36:16 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Umm...Ivermectin?


2 posted on 05/29/2021 3:44:09 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix circa 1984.)
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To: Eagles6
I think that is already out of patent, so they can't make much money on it.

The point isn't to cure diseases, it's to make the most money.

3 posted on 05/29/2021 3:47:51 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Eagles6

Yes. I wondered why no mention of Ivermectin...


4 posted on 05/29/2021 3:53:39 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries. )
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To: nickcarraway

Apparently.


5 posted on 05/29/2021 3:56:20 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix circa 1984.)
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To: marktwain

Because ivermectin is not a cure.


6 posted on 05/29/2021 4:08:30 PM PDT by gas_dr (Conditions of Socratic debate: Intelligence, Candor, and Good Will. )
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To: gas_dr

No, but it seems to have some benefit as a prophylactic.


7 posted on 05/29/2021 4:12:42 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries. )
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To: Eagles6

Seems to work, and it’s cheap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLWQtT7dHGE


8 posted on 05/29/2021 4:23:07 PM PDT by earglasses (I was blind, and now I hear...)
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To: marktwain

Because ivermectin is cheap and provides no big payoff to big pharma. It does work as prophylaxis and as a treatment.


9 posted on 05/29/2021 4:28:09 PM PDT by Blennos ( )
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To: gas_dr

“Because Ivermectin is not a cure.”

And the experimental, emergency ‘vaccines’ for which you are a flack, are not cures or even vaccines.


10 posted on 05/29/2021 4:31:03 PM PDT by A strike (Were there rainbows before the Flood ?)
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To: A strike

Ivermectin stops Covid19 in its tracks. If the patient has gone so far as needing to be on a ventilator...by then its usually too late because so much damage has been allowed to happen. I V E R M E C T I N !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


11 posted on 05/29/2021 4:40:58 PM PDT by know.your.why (If you dont watch the MSM you are uninformed. If you do watch the MSM you are misinformed.)
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To: nickcarraway

What was that Regeneron that DJT took - that seemed good to me


12 posted on 05/29/2021 4:44:33 PM PDT by Dagny Taggart
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To: nickcarraway

Hydroxychloroquine?

Ivermectin?

Quercetin?

Of course, no big money in those three, so...


13 posted on 05/29/2021 4:46:41 PM PDT by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. The Dhimmicraps are ALL Traitors. All of them.)
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To: earglasses
and it’s cheap

That's a bug, not a feature.

14 posted on 05/29/2021 4:53:07 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: A strike

Vaccines are never cures. And yes these are vaccines despite the repeated untruth of saying different.


15 posted on 05/29/2021 5:01:30 PM PDT by gas_dr (Conditions of Socratic debate: Intelligence, Candor, and Good Will. )
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To: gas_dr; know.your.why

They are not vaccines since they do not innoculate against the virus.

At least Ivermectin and HCQ are not killing people like the ‘NOT vaccine’ emergency, experimental ‘vaccines’ you flack for.

(I can hear you now: “They only kill a few people.” Don’t bother with that bullshiite.)


16 posted on 05/29/2021 5:12:00 PM PDT by A strike (Were there rainbows before the Flood ?)
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To: nickcarraway

Vitamin D3.


17 posted on 05/29/2021 5:16:14 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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To: A strike

They do prevent illness snd spread. Just because you are biases against them doesn’t mean that your definition is correct. And yes ivermectin and HCQ are killing people because people erroneously believe they are cures due to inaccurate reporting by those against vaccines


18 posted on 05/29/2021 5:17:01 PM PDT by gas_dr (Conditions of Socratic debate: Intelligence, Candor, and Good Will. )
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To: nickcarraway
There are already effective, safe treatment protocols that have an 85% success rate in curing those who are especially vulnerable due to age, comorbidities etc. Those treated later have immunity and do not need boosters and annual shots etc.

Early Treatment Protocols (Collection of Covid-19 resources, treatment and prophylactic protocols)

Consider that the fake 'vaccines' were initially claiming 95% (max) efficacy but they only tested for 2 months. As people continued to become ill after the initial 2 months, efficacy rate continues to fall; they never were that effective to begin with.

19 posted on 05/29/2021 5:22:02 PM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: gas_dr; know.your.why

“They do prevent illness and spread.”
You must be referring to Ivermectin and HCQ which are way more effective than your ‘NOT vaccines’.

“And yes ivermectin and HCQ are killing people because people erroneously believe they are cures...”
Almost complete protection is EXACTLY what you provaxxers promote about your ‘NOT vaccines’

Next you’ll be telling us the the scam plandemic caused deaths because of fear promoted by politicians, BigTech, BigPharma and media.
Who knew?


20 posted on 05/29/2021 5:52:57 PM PDT by A strike (Were there rainbows before the Flood ?)
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