A pill to treat Covid-19: 'We're talking about a return to, maybe, normal life'
Within a day of testing positive for covid-19 in June, Miranda Kelly was sick enough to be scared. At 44, with diabetes and high blood pressure, Kelly, a certified nursing assistant, was having trouble breathing, symptoms serious enough to send her to the emergency room.
[....] But the Kellys, who live in Seattle, had agreed just after their diagnoses to join a clinical trial at the nearby Fred Hutch cancer research center that's part of an international effort to test an antiviral treatment that could halt covid early in its course.
By the next day, the couple were taking four pills, twice a day. Though they weren't told whether they had received an active medication or placebo, within a week, they said, their symptoms were better. Within two weeks, they had recovered.
"I don't know if we got the treatment, but I kind of feel like we did," Miranda Kelly said. "To have all these underlying conditions, I felt like the recovery was very quick."
[....] At least three promising antivirals for covid are being tested in clinical trials, with results expected as soon as late fall or winter, said Carl Dieffenbach, director of the Division of AIDS at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who is overseeing antiviral development.
"I think that we will have answers as to what these pills are capable of within the next several months," Dieffenbach said.
An effective treatment would be great for those who get covid despite the availability of, or even having received, vaccinations.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 28 2021, @02:17PM (5 children)
If you didn't just come here yesterday, you know that it's the democrat believers way to try and silence dissenters. There'll be people to upmod you later.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 28 2021, @04:35PM (3 children)
Indeed. The libs downvote by day, the conservatives upvote by evening after they get off of work.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Tuesday September 28 2021, @05:07PM (2 children)
Heh. You're basically admitting that you're driven by political biases and not objectivity. What's with the self-owns in this article?
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(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 28 2021, @06:20PM (1 child)
Amusing that you note the political differences between working people, and people with no responsibilities.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Tuesday September 28 2021, @06:30PM
"Indeed. The libs downvote by day, the conservatives upvote by evening after they get off of work." -- You about two hours ago. This is roughly the equivalent of: "Oh yeah?! Well so's my mother!!"
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(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 28 2021, @06:55PM
they are Bolshevik's Jews' useful idiots, shabbos goy, and cultural marxists' pawns. Learn about the international Jew before it's too late.
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