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Study Claims This ‘Anti-COVID’ Pill May Actually Be Driving New Variants
The National Pulse ^ | February 9, 2023 | Raw Egg Nationalist

Posted on 02/09/2023 9:49:13 PM PST by Golden Eagle

Molnupiravir, the oral pill for COVID-19, may actually be driving the emergence of new, potentially harmful, variants of the virus, according to a Wellcome Trust-funded study at the pre-print stage.

The news may come as a blow for Merck, the drug’s manufacturer, which reported massive revenues over the last year, and for the US government, which heavily subsidised the drug’s production and distribution. It will be vindication – albeit unwanted – for those who warned the drug was dangerous and should not be given emergency-use authorization by the FDA.

Merck’s antiviral drug works by causing specific kinds of mutation in the virus, the theory being that the virus will literally “mutate itself to death”, as Dr Harvey Risch, an emeritus professor from the Yale School of Public Health, explained.

Problems could potentially arise if patients treated with the drug do not fully clear an infection, and a drug-mutated strain escapes and infects other people. That this is now happening – if the new paper is correct – is “not a surprise”, Risch adds.

A team of researchers from the US and UK used global databases of SARS-COV-2 sequences to search for mutations that were characteristic of the changes Molnupiravir makes to the viral genome. They found noticeable increases in such changes in the database beginning from when the drug was first marketed. Importantly, the increases took place in those countries where the drug was used.

The initial inspiration for the study came from author Ryan Hisner, an Indiana middle-school teacher, who noticed that a significant number of new variants of COVID-19 emerged after the widespread distribution of Molnupiravir started to take place.

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1 posted on 02/09/2023 9:49:13 PM PST by Golden Eagle
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To: Golden Eagle
Merck’s antiviral drug works by causing specific kinds of mutation in the virus, the theory being that the virus will literally “mutate itself to death”, as Dr Harvey Risch, an emeritus professor from the Yale School of Public Health, explained.

Unless some of the mutations escape first before getting to the final step.

2 posted on 02/09/2023 9:52:11 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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Would be hilarious if people weren’t being injured


3 posted on 02/09/2023 10:24:58 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Golden Eagle

Dr. Malone said that the reason for the multitude of variants is that the covid vaccine drove their evolution by trying everything too quickly, but not succceeding. It would kill off A, but leave B to reproduce and replace A. The second shot would kill off B, but leave C. Etc.


4 posted on 02/09/2023 10:27:49 PM PST by Jonty30 (THE URGE TO SAVE THE WORLD IS ALMOST ALWAYS AN URGE TO RULE IT)
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To: Jonty30

Peter McCollough predicted it the very first time I saw him in an interview in early 2020.

He said no vaccine that actually could block any disease could be safely developed without years of testing and research on that specific strain.

He said that developing vaccines for viruses like SARS2, which is how COVID-19 spreads, would be next to impossible, as they mutate so much.

To top it off, any vaccine that is released that isn’t capable of stopping the spread, is known as a “leaky vaccine” as it leaks through the vaccine, which causes even more mutation.

To him it was basic science regarding any pathogen like this, and he said many other doctors knew those basic truths as well, but ultimately so few had the guts to speak out. So most everything else we were told was a lie.


5 posted on 02/09/2023 10:37:59 PM PST by Golden Eagle (The LGBT indoctrination agenda is designed to outlaw the Bible, and anyone who believes it.)
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To: Golden Eagle

Or, The US and WHO ignored the long-standing dictum of:

“Do Not Vaccinate Into a Pandemic!”

As that drives mutations. Well known, until 2019. Then the idiots threw out 100 years of hard earned lessons.


6 posted on 02/10/2023 1:46:59 AM PST by Basket_of_Deplorables (THE FBI INTERFERED IN THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION!!!)
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To: Jonty30

The never-ending stream of variants is why an immune-strengthening approach of exercise, supplements, sleep, and nutrition is VASTLY wiser than an anti-pathogen approach of jabs with life-destroying “side effects.” [in quotes because they may be the INTENDED effects.]


7 posted on 02/10/2023 3:41:39 AM PST by The Truth Will Make You Free
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To: Golden Eagle

Daily mail has a story up today that is a significant breakthrough as to why some people are devastated by covid and others aren’t. There is a protein that attaches to covid like velcro. Interesting ramifications for other diseases.


8 posted on 02/10/2023 4:14:23 AM PST by RummyChick
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To: Golden Eagle

As far as Deep State’s concerned, that’s not a bug.

It’s a feature.


9 posted on 02/10/2023 4:32:40 AM PST by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: Golden Eagle

I was prescribed this last May when I had covid and was told it wouldn’t really help with current symptoms but would prevent long term covid.

I haven’t had any side effects yet.


10 posted on 02/10/2023 4:37:33 AM PST by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: RummyChick; nickcarraway; ransomnote; Jane Long; DoodleBob
Related, interesting paper on a number of levels. Including how long it took for the paper to be published after acceptance.

LRRC15 mediates an accessory interaction with the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein

I'm smelling another modified limited hangout

11 posted on 02/10/2023 4:37:38 AM PST by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: Golden Eagle

“...works by causing specific kinds of mutation in the virus, the theory being that the virus will literally “mutate itself to death”

Or it may mutate itself to our death - notice they say “The theory is...” and not, “We have proved..”

IOW - more mass experiments on people to see what it does to people.


12 posted on 02/10/2023 5:35:02 AM PST by trebb (So many fools - so little time...)
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To: Golden Eagle

The premise is stupid. ALL vaccines drive the emergence of new variants of ANY disease. A vaccine kills the currant variant, and only the new mutated variants survive the vaccine to propagate and expand in the future. Duh.

This fact says why liberals who claim that a static government-run medical system is adequate are wrong.


13 posted on 02/10/2023 6:25:44 AM PST by nagant
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To: 21twelve; 444Flyer; AAABEST; A.Hun; Alamo-Girl; alarm rider; Americalover; Ancesthntr; appleseed; ..

Infectious Disease ping


14 posted on 02/10/2023 6:27:53 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: Golden Eagle; Jane Long; ransomnote; SecAmndmt; Jan_Sobieski; bagster; Roman_War_Criminal; ...

Vaccine escape has been known for a long time. That’s why up until the Covid debacle, nobody tried to vaccinate heir way out of a pandemic.

The powers that be have just prolonged this whole mess with their policies.


15 posted on 02/10/2023 6:30:12 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: Golden Eagle

“… works by causing specific kinds of mutation in the virus…”

I’m curious how they are sure it mutates viral rna but not human rna.


16 posted on 02/10/2023 6:30:35 AM PST by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals)
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To: nagant
The premise is stupid. ALL vaccines drive the emergence of new variants of ANY disease. A vaccine kills the currant variant, and only the new mutated variants survive the vaccine to propagate and expand in the future. Duh

Just like antibiotic resistant bacteria.

17 posted on 02/10/2023 6:33:57 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: metmom

I would like to see personal holding gains charts for Congress - as a starting point - overlapping 2008/2019/2023.


18 posted on 02/10/2023 6:34:13 AM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: Golden Eagle

Molnupirivir and Paxlovid were submitted at the same time.

The Merck trial (Molnupirivir) showed 30% effectiveness, at best. The Pfizer trial (Paxlovid) showed >90% effectiveness.

It was astonishing that FDA approved the Merck drug, first because of gross inferiority to Paxlovid, and second (and because of the first) its extreme likelihood of generating variants.


19 posted on 02/10/2023 6:38:30 AM PST by Jim Noble (You have sat too long for any good you have been doing)
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To: Golden Eagle

Here’s a shock: Covid medicine is poison. None of it has been shown to be remotely effective. At least in the ways we were told. Effective medicine was demonized. They are not stupid people. All this was for money or population reduction.


20 posted on 02/10/2023 6:47:24 AM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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