The company hopes it can eventually offer the pill, given in combination with an older antiviral drug called ritonavir, to people to take at home before they get sick enough to go to the hospital.A so-called interim analysis -- done before the trial was scheduled to end -- showed an 89% reduction in the risk of hospitalization or death from Covid-19 if patients got it soon enough, the company said.
People can also be treated with monoclonal antibodies, which are injected or infused therapies that kickstart the immune system to help fight off infection. They are not as easy to take as a pill and must be administered by a trained professional.Merck is seeking FDA emergency use authorization for molnupiravir, an antiviral capsule people could take at home. It's been shown to reduce the risk of hospitalization or death by about 50%.
Bet the antivaxxers won’t mind taking this experimental pill!
Great, now no more vaccine mandates...right?
Let me guess- ivermectin?!?
Free endorsement or paid ads to CNN from these big pharmaceutical companies during this pandemic, please?!
Experimental pill is hilarious
cnn bought and paid for by Pfizer of course they going to push their drugs
I call bs. No mention of the ages or heath conditions of the people in the study. Who exactly did they test this on?
Nice
Great. Now the anti-vaxxers will become anti-pillers.
Nice
The antivaxxer/flatearthers gonna have a fun day on this tweet.
Don’t worry there will still be mandates and masks
Pfizermectin
Who writes these things? By about 90%...
Stockholm Syndrome?
Vaxart has a COVID19 💊 room temperature vaccine that could end this global pandemic! Why hasn’t the 🌎 invested in this scalable solution to Covid yet? Let’s Fundthepill via YouTube