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

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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  • (Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 29 2021, @03:57AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 29 2021, @03:57AM (#1182586)

    Show us proof & again: You even TRY pay the next year? You get SHUTDOWN, even for $1 OWED DUMMY! They'll put you in tax seizure & auction your home if you owe them a dime afaik. SO much for your bs, homeless HEROIN hobo (lol).

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    APK

    P.S.=> Fact remains that ANYONE who pays quarterly tax KNOWS you can't close out a PRIOR YEAR minus paying it down IN FULL any tax owed whatsoever - which I have OR I couldn't pay this year you FUCKING WORTHLESS WASTE OF LIFE CUNT (which I have - I am a GOOD CITIZEN who does his "CIVIC DUTY" paying taxes - you obviously don't & what PISSES ME OFF is welfare suckers like YOU I waste monies in taxes on so you can LEACH THE SYSTEM, which you OBVIOUSLY do considering you don't even KNOW HOW TAXATION by quarter works)... apk

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