Molnupiravir: First pill to treat Covid gets approval in UK

[Tommy Tainant]

Molnupiravir: First pill to treat Covid gets approval in UK

The tablet - molnupiravir - will be given twice a day to patients recently diagnosed with the disease.

www.bbc.co.uk

Yay, isnt science amazing ? 50% cut in the mortality rate is something to celebrate.

This is the magic pill that will save all of those idiot anti vaxxers.

 

[Mac1958]

Sometimes I want to find the people who name these medicines and punch them square in the throat.

Just saying.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

Sometimes I want to find the people who name these medicines and punch them square in the throat.

Just saying.

I had to cut and paste it. Couldnt be arsed typing it out.

 

[sparky]

Molnupiravir - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

~S~

 

[Care4all]

Great news!

This is where pharma makes the BIG MONEY....$600 a pill, vs.$19.50 for a vaccine.

It works 50% of the time, while vaccines are in the 90% range working.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

Great news!

This is where pharma makes the BIG MONEY....$600 a pill, vs.$19.50 for a vaccine.

It works 50% of the time, while vaccines are in the 90% range working.

Thats a cost to Americans. Not an issue over here.

 

[JGalt]

Probably horse paste in a pill.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

Just been on our news that Pfizer are on the verge of releasing a similar product.

 

[sparky]

It works 50% of the time, while vaccines are in the 90% range working.

nope, sorry C4All

~S~

 

[Dekster]

Molnupiravir: First pill to treat Covid gets approval in UK

The tablet - molnupiravir - will be given twice a day to patients recently diagnosed with the disease.

www.bbc.co.uk

Yay, isnt science amazing ? 50% cut in the mortality rate is something to celebrate.

This is the magic pill that will save all of those idiot anti vaxxers.

The irony here is that this magic pill was developed in 2018 to treat....wait for it.....

 

[Dekster]

Probably horse paste in a pill.

LOL that is exactly what it is. It was developed to treat Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

The irony here is that this magic pill was developed in 2018 to treat....wait for it.....

 

[Dekster]

Linky was provided in Post #4 by sparky

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Linky was provided in Post #4 by sparky

You seemed to have misread the link.

Molnupiravir was developed at Emory University by the university's drug innovation company, Drug Innovation Ventures at Emory (DRIVE).[6] In 2014, DRIVE began a screening project funded by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency to find an antiviral drug targeting Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus (VEEV), which led to the discovery of EIDD-1931.[12] When turned into the prodrug EIDD-2801 (molnupiravir), the compound also showed activity against other RNA viruses including influenza, Ebola, chikungunya, and various coronaviruses.[12]


They found this drug while looking for drugs to treat VEEV, but this drug was never used for that. If you follow the link to footnote 12 you get a pretty good background on this drug.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

LOL that is exactly what it is. It was developed to treat Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus.

Isnt the important thing that it is saving lives ? The pfizer product is reportedly even better.

 

[Dekster]

You seemed to have misread the link.

Molnupiravir was developed at Emory University by the university's drug innovation company, Drug Innovation Ventures at Emory (DRIVE).[6] In 2014, DRIVE began a screening project funded by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency to find an antiviral drug targeting Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus (VEEV), which led to the discovery of EIDD-1931.[12] When turned into the prodrug EIDD-2801 (molnupiravir), the compound also showed activity against other RNA viruses including influenza, Ebola, chikungunya, and various coronaviruses.[12]


They found this drug while looking for drugs to treat VEEV, but this drug was never used for that. If you follow the link to footnote 12 you get a pretty good background on this drug.

Ridgeback Bio says right on their site that "Molnupiravir has also shown activity in animal models of Ebola, Equine Encephalitis (VEEV and EEEV), Influenza (seasonal, pandemic and avian), and Respiratory Syncytial Virus" Molnupiravir - Ridgeback Biotherapeutics

 

[Dekster]

Isnt the important thing that it is saving lives ? The pfizer product is reportedly even better.

Well, that wasn't the standard people applied when discussing ivermectin.

I have maintained from the beginning that we would end up with some off-label use discovery of better COVID treatment. That requires existing drugs to be tried out to see if they work. These off-label treatments of symptoms happen all the time.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Ridgeback Bio says right on their site that "Molnupiravir has also shown activity in animal models of Ebola, Equine Encephalitis (VEEV and EEEV), Influenza (seasonal, pandemic and avian), and Respiratory Syncytial Virus" Molnupiravir - Ridgeback Biotherapeutics

An animal model is a non-human species used in medical research because it can mimic aspects of a disease found in humans. Animal models are used to obtain information about a disease and its prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. By using animals, researchers can carry out experiments that would be impractical or ethically prohibited with humans.

It has still never actually been given to treat either VEEV or EEEV

 

[Damaged Eagle]

Oh look! Big pharma screwing the public with government approval and most likely more mandates.

*****SMILE*****

 

[Care4all]

The irony here is that this magic pill was developed in 2018 to treat....wait for it.....

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Nope, it was created to treat influenza....