If cleared, Merck’s drug would be the first pill shown to treat COVID-19, a potentially major advance in efforts to fight the pandemic. All COVID-19 therapies now authorized in the U.S. require an IV or injection.
Friday, October 01, 2021
Yeah, I'm taking a hard pass on this one too
WASHINGTON (AP) — Merck & Co. said Friday that its experimental COVID-19 pill reduced hospitalizations and deaths by half in people recently infected with the coronavirus and that it would soon ask health officials in the U.S. and around the world to authorize its use.
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Are they going to call it Iver-MERCK-tin?
ReplyDeleteOops I should have read your comment before making a similar one.
DeleteDamn! You beat me to it. I made that exact comment to my wife last night. And just in time to compete with Pfizer-mectin, soon to hit the market.
DeleteAnon - Pfizer is busy developing Pfizermectin as we speak. Seriously, their pill is a TMPRSS2 drug just like ivermectin and proxalutimide.
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Merck is still trying to get something out of molnupiravir. It failed as a late term treatment, it failed as a mid stage treatment. Now they're going for the early stage/prophylaxis field goal. Which all goes to show, just because something was insanely effective in a Petri dish doesn't mean it pans out in real life.
So expect both of these to get approved. Remdesivir doesn't work so great either, just ask the WHO and the rest of the world, who gave it big fat "meh". But it has super high profit margin for the maker and for the hospital that administers it. And whaddya know, it got FDA approval in record time.
I'm all for treatments. But this whole pandemic is a money machine for the already super wealthy.
I do believe that Merk is the maker of Ivermectin. What ingredient do you think is going to be in that pill? Asking for myself and anyone who sick to fucking death of this shit.
ReplyDeleteYeah... Nope.
ReplyDelete"In March, DRIVE licensed EIDD-2801 to Ridgeback Biotherapeutics for human studies. In April, the FDA and the UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency cleared the way to begin Phase I human testing, which began April 10 in the UK. In his whistleblower complaint, Rick Bright, who was removed as head of the US Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) in April, asserts that Ridgeback pressured BARDA to provide funding to manufacture EIDD-2801 despite Bright's concerns that similar drugs in its class have mutagenic properties."
https://cen.acs.org/pharmaceuticals/drug-development/emerging-antiviral-takes-aim-COVID-19/98/web/2020/05
"A company called Pharmasset Inc. (a hepatitis C drugmaker Gilead bought in 2011) investigated molnupiravir’s main ingredient around the turn of the century, but it abandoned development over concerns that it was mutagenic, meaning it could lead to birth defects."
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-03-25/merck-mrk-molnupiravir-pill-could-change-the-fight-against-covid
I want to see what's in it first.
ReplyDeleteI don't know what's in it but I read that it's a "more conventional" drug that's not mRNA based.
DeleteYou have to take it to see it.
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Nah, will stick with my paste
DeleteInjection, pill makes no difference, my immune system beats them all
ReplyDelete"If cleared, Merck’s drug would be the first pill shown to treat COVID-19, a potentially major advance in efforts to fight the pandemic."
ReplyDeleteBull Shit. Ivermectin and HQL have been used to save millions of lives. Blood is on the hands of the CDC, FDA, NIH and every politician who blocked early treatment in exchange for Big Pharma dollars.
Blood washes off, and Big Pharma pays very, very well.
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ReplyDeleteOur lives and children be damned.
i tried taking some of that horse dewormer. Yes, it didn't taste TOO bitter i.m.h.o. I am sure i overdosed, but not exactly sure by how much because it was an unmeasured amount at the very beginning of the syringe.
ReplyDeleteIf you try and purchase your own, watch out for the *external* formulations that are intended to be applied on fur/hide/skin/hair/etc!
We've had this Covid pill (early in-home treatment) for a long time... it's called Ivermectin.
ReplyDeleteLife imitating art. Watch the end of the movie "The Fugitive" when Harrison Ford's character breaks into a medical symposium and expires how a drug company had made minor changes to an existing drug whose patent had expired so they could remarket it at 50 times the price.
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