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A Pill to Treat Covid-19? The U.S. Is Betting on It.
The New York Times ^ | June 17, 2021 | Carl Zimmer

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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TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: azithromycin; chinavirustreatment; covid19; covid1984; fakenews; hydrochloroquine; ivermectin; ivermercktin; malnupiravir; merck; molnupiravir; morefakenews; newyorkslimes; pfizermectin
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https://www.acsh.org/news/2021/06/21/ny-times-covid-pill-article-reveals-%E2%80%98willful-ignorance%E2%80%99-about-drug-discovery-15617
1 posted on 10/02/2021 12:40:39 AM PDT by definitelynotaliberal
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To: definitelynotaliberal; All
It’s already available. Big pharma, CDC and FDA just don’t want the unwashed, unaware people to know it exists.

https://rumble.com/vlpecw-the-story-of-ivermectin.html

https://covid19criticalcare.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/FLCCC-I-MASK-Protocol-v4-2020-11-22.pdf

2 posted on 10/02/2021 12:47:24 AM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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Hot link:
https://www.acsh.org/news/2021/06/21/ny-times-covid-pill-article-reveals-‘willful-ignorance’-about-drug-discovery-15617


3 posted on 10/02/2021 12:52:42 AM PDT by House Atreides
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To: definitelynotaliberal

guess the script called for today to be covid therapeutics day! must be winding down the “pandemic”!

8m33s to 16m13s: this one plans to wipe out SARS CoV2 completely...now that the money is available; they can’t understand why the money wasn’t there earlier; ends with BBC’s Roland Pease saying imagine if such an antiviral was available in WUHAN at the beginning of the covid story! thought he would just say available in general:

AUDIO: 29min: 30 Sept: BBC World Service: Science in Action
Presenter: Roland Pease
We hear from some of the scientists from COVID Moonshot, a non-profit, open-science consortium which has just received key funding to develop affordable antivirals to stop SARS-CoV-2 in its tracks...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct1l48


4 posted on 10/02/2021 1:00:35 AM PDT by MAGAthon
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60 years ahead of you, Big Pharma Vax-Pushers. And last year at this time it was about 3¢ a pill. The price has risen somewhat since then since you guys have been buying it all up to hide it, burning down factories, and denying people access to it, but it’s still well below the $3,000 Remdesivir treatment.


5 posted on 10/02/2021 2:02:51 AM PDT by ponygirl (An Appeal to Heaven )
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To: definitelynotaliberal

Well the comments are going exactly like I thought it would.


6 posted on 10/02/2021 2:51:18 AM PDT by 3RIVRS
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To: definitelynotaliberal

Well the comments are going exactly like I thought it would.


7 posted on 10/02/2021 2:56:17 AM PDT by 3RIVRS
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To: definitelynotaliberal

Molnupiravir is in the same class as Remdesevir.

Thanks anyway, Deep State, Big Med, Big Pharma.

I’ll opt for horsey paste.


8 posted on 10/02/2021 3:01:02 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: mewzilla

Aaaaargh.

Remdesivir.


9 posted on 10/02/2021 3:01:34 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: definitelynotaliberal

Why Remdesivir will kill you
https://www.bitchute.com/video/QImnpaRZwhh0/


10 posted on 10/02/2021 3:10:51 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)
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I’m not taking anything for something that has a 99% survival rate


11 posted on 10/02/2021 3:16:55 AM PDT by roving
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Ivermectin is decent


12 posted on 10/02/2021 3:31:04 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19 (Game over, man! Game over! ; : rem ad triarios redisse is)
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We’ve had pills to treat this virus since March of 2020. Safe, effective and cheap pills. These have been suppressed in favor of the dangerous and short-acting vaccines. Now that Big Pharma is coming out with their own on-patent pills $$$, the NY Times is all over it. We are becoming the Soviet Union.


13 posted on 10/02/2021 3:46:04 AM PDT by Blennos ( )
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy

Thanks for that link!


14 posted on 10/02/2021 3:53:48 AM PDT by PistolPaknMama
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To: definitelynotaliberal

I think what’s happening now is that even the Left is getting tired of this pandemic and asked the drug companies to follow Uttar Pradesh’s lead in India and put an end to the pandemic using Ivermectin. Of course they can’t directly go to Ivermectin, or they’d be complicit in millions of unnecessary deaths, so they reformulate a bit and call their ‘new’ medication a ‘miracle’.

But either way, by Christmas, we’ll be like Uttar Pradesh, an Indian state with 230 Million people, averaging under 20 new cases per day, thanks to Ivermectin.


15 posted on 10/02/2021 4:20:10 AM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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“Ivermectin”...... half the cost and twice the effectiveness.....But NO we can’t use it cuz the politicians can’t get rich off it!!


16 posted on 10/02/2021 4:48:57 AM PDT by high info voter
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Yep, my brother and his friend, one of which lives in Washington state and the other lives in a South American country, both ended up in bed over covid, both had a third world ivermectin source and were back up and around in two days in one case and 3 days in the other. So yeah, we have a pill.


17 posted on 10/02/2021 5:26:38 AM PDT by cuban leaf (We killed our economy and damaged our culture. In 2021 we will pine for the salad days of 2020.)
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To: definitelynotaliberal

Ivermectin is such a pill. It has the crippling liability, though, of not having a current patent and thus is not worth $billions to the pharmaceutical companies and to certain politicians and elites.


18 posted on 10/02/2021 6:08:22 AM PDT by arthurus ( covfefe fd)
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To: roving

You could take massive D3 i.e. 900 units per pound of body weight. I did and my CCPflu was gone in a day. Of course, I have taken 5000 iu (125 mcg) a day for 16 years and have had no virus maladies at all in that time other than the little scrape with CCP.


19 posted on 10/02/2021 6:13:30 AM PDT by arthurus ( covfefe)
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To: definitelynotaliberal

Pfizermectin?


20 posted on 10/02/2021 6:14:25 AM PDT by kosciusko51
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