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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, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 28 2021, @05:43PM (4 children)
I wouldn't talk anymore if I were you deathmonkey. You committed suicide @ APK's hands https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=45162&page=1&cid=1182286#commentwrap [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2, Touché) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday September 28 2021, @06:06PM (3 children)
Good point, if I earn too many more +1 Touches off you the internet might run out of points.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 28 2021, @06:31PM (2 children)
Hurry! Get your sockpuppets out to downmod facts APK put out here again too https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=45162&page=1&cid=1182349#commentwrap [soylentnews.org] as he notes your suicde in that post too you keep downmod hiding (which everyone knows how schmucks like you operate with lies) with you losing to him again as usual.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 28 2021, @11:47PM (1 child)
Cut the bullshit. You are APK.
It's hilarious that you're accusing others of sock puppetry while posting AC comments that pretend to be from someone else. What a fucking hypocrite.
DeathMonkey contributes more of value to this site in every single post of his than you have in your entire time here.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 29 2021, @12:27AM
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