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A Pill to Treat Covid-19: "We're Talking About a Return to, Maybe, Normal Life"

posted by martyb on Tuesday September 28 2021, @09:46AM   
from the you-can-lead-a-horse-to-water dept.

DannyB writes:

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.

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• Re:It's a marketing problem at this point Re:It's a marketing problem at this point (Score: 3, Funny) by ilPapa on Tuesday September 28 2021, @05:19PM (3 children)

  by ilPapa (2366) on Tuesday September 28 2021, @05:19PM (#1182304) Journal

  Seriously. How about we come up with a real solution to get people to actually take them?

  Label them "Patriot Pills" and have drill sergeants distribute them
  Stamp "Trump 2024" or "Make Trump President Again" on them
  Tell them it's actually big enough to have a chip in it, and it's big enough to identify you as one of the desirable races
  It's one to a customer, and the extra stock will get sold to the local ethnic markets along with a marketing campaign
  Free iPod nano [reddit.com] to the first 1000 customers!
  Free custom onlyfans video from your favorite, um, entertainer (?) if you show vaccine proof
  Any other bright ideas? Why take anything off the table at this point.

  Not for nothing, but after I got my second Moderna shot, my dick grew by 2 inches. Pass it on.

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  You are still welcome on my lawn.

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• Re:It's a marketing problem at this point Re:It's a marketing problem at this point (Score: 3, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday September 28 2021, @06:28PM (1 child)

  by Runaway1956 (2926) on Tuesday September 28 2021, @06:28PM (#1182354) Homepage Journal

  You call two extra inches a "good thing"? I don't like stepping on it when I get out of the shower!

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  • Re:It's a marketing problem at this point (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 29 2021, @01:06AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 29 2021, @01:06AM (#1182514)

    Take Viagra. It'll make you taller so you won't step on it getting out of the shower.

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• Re:It's a marketing problem at this point (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 29 2021, @12:06AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 29 2021, @12:06AM (#1182493)

  Your husband must be so proud.

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