Wouldn’t this be a great advance – no getting a stick, just swallow a pill (reformatted, emphasis mine). “COVID-19 pill effective in preliminary testing may be ‘holy grail’ of pandemic, Dr. Marc Siegel says.”
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Dr. Siegel predicts the at-home therapeutic could come to market in four to five months
A new possible medication to treat coronavirus-positive patients could be enough to turn the pandemic on its head, Fox News medical contributor Dr. Marc Siegel revealed Sunday on “Fox & Friends Weekend.” First-stage testing of the experimental COVID-19 pill called Molnupiravir, by Merck and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics, showed promising signs of effectiveness in reducing the virus in patients.
“It may be the holy grail on this because it was just studied in phase two trials and it literally stopped the virus in its tracks,” he explained. “And there wasn’t any virus found in the patients that were studied.” The drug would function as an at-home, five-day treatment, similar to Tamiflu, to stop the virus from reproducing before causing major damage. Siegel said the therapeutic could come to market in as little as four to five months.
The piece says that only 182 people were studied – that a real small number and like with all “first stage” results, caution is needed. Although I was not affected, I always think “thalidomide” and the birth defects it caused when it was prescribed for other purposes – and with pregnant moms.
I do have to wonder, a bit, that while there have been a few adverse allergic reactions to both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines fairly soon after injection (a very TINY number given the 10s of millions having received them), will there be any long term outcomes that, like thalidomide, we just don’t know?
Just yet another unknown-unknown that we deal with as a regular part of Life. That all said, if this were to work out well, we would have taken a very scary disease down to almost a home remedy solution.
Hey, wouldn’t this totally avoid Sununu’s Vaccine Registry altogether? A twofer!
More at Fox News and at the Merk / Ridgeback Biotherapeutics site.
