Posted on 10/02/2021 12:40:39 AM PDT by definitelynotaliberal
At the start of the pandemic, researchers began testing existing antivirals in people hospitalized with severe Covid-19. But many of those trials failed to show any benefit from the antivirals. In hindsight, the choice to work in hospitals was a mistake. Scientists now know that the best time to try to block the coronavirus is in the first few days of the disease, when the virus is replicating rapidly and the immune system has not yet mounted a defense.
In a trial of hospitalized patients, however, molnupiravir seemed to have no effect on the disease. In April, the companies announced they were scrapping the trial.
“I see that, and I’m like, ‘Yeah, no duh,’” said Dr. Tim Sheahan, a virologist at the University of North Carolina. “It’s not surprising to me that those kinds of medications would not make a dramatic improvement in someone’s outcome when they’ve been sick for several days.”
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I suspect the New Magic pill will be Ivermectin with a chemical tweak or a chemical renaming to get that billion $ patent.
I hear nurses call it RunDeathIsNear
You are exactly right. It’s most likely Ivermectin in disguise.
Hydroxychlorloquine has worked, at low cost since day one.
“You are exactly right. It’s most likely Ivermectin in disguise.”
Yea, and I believe that Merck calls it “Ivermercktin”...they don’t even try to hide what it is.
(just kidding, but I like that name)
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