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Merck says COVID-19 pill may not be as effective as they thought
Nypost ^ | 11/26/2021 | Selim Algar

Posted on 11/26/2021 12:13:44 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27

Pharmaceutical giant Merck said Friday that its COVID-19 pill could be less effective than originally thought.

The drugmaker said the experimental pill, molnupiravir, was shown to be 30 percent effective in fighting hospitalizations and deaths in a study of 1,433 patients.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


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KEYWORDS: covid; effective; merck; pill; whoops
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Sounds like the vaccine...
1 posted on 11/26/2021 12:13:44 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Do we get a taxpayer tefund?


2 posted on 11/26/2021 12:15:30 PM PST by momincombatboots (Ephesians 6... who you are really at war with.)
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3 posted on 11/26/2021 12:17:23 PM PST by conservative98
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I’m guessing rest and chicken soup would be more than 30 percent effective.


4 posted on 11/26/2021 12:18:44 PM PST by JennysCool ("It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." - Mark Twain)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Hooda Thunkit?
5 posted on 11/26/2021 12:19:10 PM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Should have just repackaged Ivermectin pills and called it “molnupiravir”. More effective and way cheaper.


6 posted on 11/26/2021 12:24:35 PM PST by mikey_hates_everything
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Whatever you do…DO NOT take the horse paste y’all! Hospitals will lose incentive payments. Doctors and nurses will make incessant awful tik-tok videos with too much free time. Can you imagine the chaos of healthy elderly flooding Florida beaches?


7 posted on 11/26/2021 12:24:41 PM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Merck tried to disguise Ivermectin, but it didn’t work.

The old drug is much cheaper than the new formulation, is time-tested and safe, and it works against all of these purported variants.

But, Dr. Fraudchi, and his pals in Big Pharma, don’t want anyone to know that.


8 posted on 11/26/2021 12:26:41 PM PST by BrexitBen
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To: ChicagoConservative27

No duh.


9 posted on 11/26/2021 12:27:26 PM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Company will have to play soothing and cheery music loudly on the TV ads of happy people of all races on a summer picnic when the guy reads:

“Report to your health professional if you have common side effects such as male impotence, male and female hair falling out (alopecia) and uncontrollable leg and arm spasms while driving or using stairs. These are not the legal responsibility of your pharmaceutical manufacturer or provider.”


10 posted on 11/26/2021 12:28:28 PM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Recalling Merck, Vioxx and withdrawing a sometimes deadly drug after five years.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1779871/

—”Approximately 27,000 Vioxx medical injury product-liability lawsuits were settled in 2008 when Merck agreed to pay at total of 4.85 $billion. The settlement offer came after Merck lost multiple important bellwether or early lawsuit trials for damages up to $32 million. Merck also agreed to settle a federal class action lawsuit filed by investors for $830 million.”

https://www.seegerweiss.com/drug-injury/vioxx-lawsuit/


11 posted on 11/26/2021 12:37:24 PM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Basic math is simple. Real science open to proof and validation. Fear porn theater is a fine phrase/)
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To: mikey_hates_everything

I thought I saw a report that Vanderbilt was going to start a study on using Ivermectin to treat Covid?


12 posted on 11/26/2021 12:38:29 PM PST by pnz1 ("These people have gone stone-cold crazy")
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To: ChicagoConservative27

No worries; Just take double the dose PLUS a booster every 6 months.


13 posted on 11/26/2021 12:39:21 PM PST by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

This particular drug is a “mutagenic”. If you want cancer, take this pill. It is not an ivermectin knockoff (that’s the Pfizer pill aka Pfizermectin @ $720 per pill).

I will try to find the link to the ‘mutagenic’ info - very reputable docs. Not sure I saved the reference :-(

Oh, BTW the horse paste isn’t bad - might have had WuFlu a few weeks ago. Started ivermectin via paste 1.5 days after symptoms started & “it” was shut down in 2-3 days. Zero issues like stomach distress or anything else. :-)


14 posted on 11/26/2021 12:40:31 PM PST by Qiviut ("Don't let your children die on the hill you refuse to fight on.")
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Related:

“Pfizer CEO Warns New Vaccine To Combat Heavily-Mutated Coronavirus Could Take 100 Days”

So, we will continue get hounded to get two shots and a booster for the old virus, plus a shot or two, three, etc. for the new and improved variant in about 100 days.

It’s going to get hard to keep up with all those shots and when to get them. The odd part is, they haven’t shown that the old shots don’t work against the new variant yet. But we can have a new shot in 100 days.

If it’s a different shot, why no testing period?


15 posted on 11/26/2021 12:44:43 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (Elvis is dead and Joe Biden doesn't feel so good himself.)
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They just gotta charge more. At $20.00 a pop, the pill will work wonders! The Ivermectin alternative is only $1.50 a pop so they don’t work as well. Right FDA?


16 posted on 11/26/2021 12:46:10 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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Hi. So you tried the paste? I wondered about putting it in capsules.


17 posted on 11/26/2021 12:46:35 PM PST by AuntB (Trump is our Ben Franklin - Brilliant, Boisterous, Brave and ALL AMERICAN!)
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Kills more than it saves...?


18 posted on 11/26/2021 12:48:42 PM PST by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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Yup. Since Merck developed Ivermectin and 3.5 billion doses have been given worldwide since 1980 with no I’ll effects, Merck will just repackage it and sell it to the government for $20.00 a pop.


19 posted on 11/26/2021 12:49:00 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Don’t worry Dr Fubar will simply prescribe more of them 🤪


20 posted on 11/26/2021 12:51:50 PM PST by NWFree (Somebody has to say it)
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