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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, @09:59PM (1 child)
You are going full bore bonkers. Well, you were bonkers before this sooooo maybe not much of a change.
Trump lost you whiny little bitch, and he lied to you about oh so many things. Sucks to be a loser's loser right?
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 28 2021, @10:42PM
Aw poor DeadMONKEY can't handle he got shot to pieces as usual and especially against apk https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=45162&page=1&cid=1182286#commentwrap [soylentnews.org] and now he's out of downmodpoints to abuse to try down mod hide it, hehehehe. So simple to blow "Trump Derangement Syndrome" morons like you away JEW scumbag. Maricopa County Arizona audit results prove otherwise as do more votes than is possible occuring from states like N. Carolina, Pennsylvania and now Texas is going to do audits as well. I am going to LAUGH bigtime when Biden is removed (or probably KILLED or 25th amendment removed since he is a blithering idiot puppet) and when you all DIE of your CLOT SHOTS too.