Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

SoylentNews is people

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   Printer-friendly
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.

Original Submission

 
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
A Pill to Treat Covid-19: "We're Talking About a Return to, Maybe, Normal Life" | Log In/Create an Account | Top | 173 comments | Search Discussion
Display Options Threshold/Breakthrough Mark All as Read Mark All as Unread
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.

  • (Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 29 2021, @04:47AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 29 2021, @04:47AM (#1182600)

    LMAO: "Playing VICTIM" now, fakename fuck? That's right - I AM calling you WHAT YOU ARE, especially when you asked for DEATH by FACTS I put out @ YOUR REQUEST too no less! You ARE a DEAD MONKEY. You asked to be killed by FACTUAL proofs, so I provided them from your OWN admin staff here on SOYLENT (who know you are sockpuppeting cheating little fucks).

    * YOU LOSE & me? I love it... Man, I haven't said THIS in awhile but you merit it:

    THIS? This https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=45162&page=1&cid=1182286#commentwrap [soylentnews.org] was just "too, Too, TOO EASY - just '2ez'" as usual vs. FAKENAME fucks online that use 50 sockpuppets each to upmod themself (under MANY accounts) & to DOWNMOD those like myself that put out UNDENIABLE, VERIFIABLE concrete facts to shut you down with.

    LMAO - Hypocite you COMPLAIN of namecalling (you FAKENAME fuck sockpuppeteer) YET DO IT YOURSELF when I blasted you to pieces with this post?? Proof https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=45162&page=1&cid=1182306#commentwrap [soylentnews.org] PROVING you are NOTHING but a hypocrite LOWBROW I could EASILY get the best of (lol, by LETTING YOU defeat yourself FOR ME using your own requests & stupid words, lol...)

    AND?

    Who'd I "threaten" victimhood playing LOSER? You?? You don't even EXIST - you're a FAKENAME FUCK online (probably 1 of your MANY "low self-esteem" naricissistic DELUSIONAL accounts you use to BOLSTER your loser self - only way you can, apparently, is to SELF UPMOD yourself(ves) via cheating).

    APK

    P.S.=> We DON"T all wish we could be FAKENAME FUCK LOSERS like you than when BLOWN AWAY by "yours truly" & BY YOUR OWN ADMIN STAFF here prove you are full of it - hilarious but TYPICAL from weirdos like you, lol... apk

    Starting Score:    0  points
    Moderation   -1  
       Spam=1, Total=1
    Extra 'Spam' Modifier   0  
    Total Score:   -1  

  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 29 2021, @04:55AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 29 2021, @04:55AM (#1182602)

    You do realize that everyone is laughing at you for being a loser, right? If you weren't a loser, you wouldn't spend your entire life on this site posting spam.

    You contribute negative value to society. The world will be better when COVID-19 kills your stupid unvaccinated ass. I'm fully vaccinated, so I'll be around to piss and defecate on your grave for decades to come.