Posted on 09/01/2021 11:27:57 PM PDT by blueplum
The developer of ivermectin is performing late-stage trials on a drug that could actually prevent COVID-19.
Merck & Co partnered with Ridgeback Biotherapeutics to develop molnupiravir.
Enrollment for late-stage trials for their drug have already started....
The drug, which can be taken via a pill, is now entering late stage trials in the United States as Merck plans to eventually seek FDA approval.
Over 1,300 volunteers aged 18 or older will be recruited for the study and live in a house with someone who has a symptomatic case of the COVID-19.
Merck also plans to use the drug in some lower income countries in the meanwhile, attempting to acquire emergency authorization.
The company has partnered with Indian generic drug manufacturers to produce and sell versions of molnupiravir in the country, pending approval from local regulators.
Merck hopes the drug could help alleviate these countries COVID-19 situations while they await a larger supply of the vaccine. '
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
They’re going to call it Nitcemrevi to fool the feds:)
“Over 1,300 volunteers aged 18 or older will be recruited for the study and live in a house with someone who has a symptomatic case of the COVID-19.”
That must be some house!
Exactly!
I’ve seen them do that with antihistamines many times over the years.
Sounds good but you do realize, according to the anti-vaxxers, that we will need at least seven years of real-world data to prove it’s 100% effective, has zero adverse reactions, and must be endorsed by the AFLD, before it can be administered. Until then we’ll be fully protected by Vitamin D.
Yeah, I learned of this in an episode from Dr. Steve Turley. I just tried to find it but couldn’t. To paraphrase big pharma’s bottom line was mostly in the red for 10 years with some spikes into the black.
I guess they had fleeced the American public as much as they could with name brand drugs. They had been around long enough for generic drugs of the same ingredients to be sold much cheaper.
I guess they figured (think Bill Gates) vaccines were the future but only if they needed to keep giving them endlessly. It would not surprise me when this virus burns itself out one day to widely used treatments and not the vaxx; big pharma miraculously develops another vaccine in record time for a brand new virus they intentionally released on the world.
We are just cattle to them. Mindless nameless cattle to be used for profit.
They should put “mib” at the end of the name - seems every treatment being tried ends in “mib”
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“So,they will add a extra ingredient.. rename it.. and charge 10x more?”
Exactly
‘Controversy regarding Molnupiravir formerly EIDD-2801 now MK-4482’ March 11, 2021
” EIDD-2801 has been viewed as a potential competitor to remdesivir, although a contentious one, because similar compounds are mutagenic in animal studies, meaning they produce birth defects. Rick Bright, who was removed from his position as head of the US Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) in April, was reluctant to provide funding for the drug for this reason, according to an 89-page whistleblower complaint Bright filed after being fired. Merck’s investment in EIDD-2801 can be seen as a vote of confidence in the compound.’
wonder if they fixed the ‘mutagenic’ problem.....but seems they can do ANYTHING to us now with no repercussions.
Bright was the one who locked up all the doses of HCQ that we got from India.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=162486723
Yep. That extra ingredient may be something as simple as a steroid to prevent inflammation or Zinc to prevent virus uptake into cells. Who knows. As long as it drives Merck's profits up and that's all that's really important here isn't it?
Poorly written headline. It does not prevent infections. It minimizes the symptoms.
“Like Remdesivir, Molnupiravir is an RNA chain-terminator, which works by spoofing an amino acid in the COVID virus self-repair machine.”
Does that mean that it prevents the virus from replicating? And is this occuring when the virus has entered a cell?
The virus enters a cell and reproduction (transcription) begins, but the copies are so filled with errors that they are unable to spread the infection.
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