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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 30 2021, @05:53PM
Check again (corrected by county next day): I long ago took care of it in Dec 2020 & it was STALE DATA on their website as I said here https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=45162&page=1&cid=1182969#commentwrap [soylentnews.org] & their IT team is now directly linking as I noted via middlewares (couple ways to do it, even thru a smaller DB like SQLite or Access populating its data LOCALLY on the website server even, then to query by website code to fill browsers on while LOADED w/ middleware updated from a midrange/mainframe - but best is to "go direct" if/when possible (no local db using middleware) provided your interface can do so using said middleware that is (I've done it via C++/ObjectPascal Delphi/VB apps I wrote over decades but NOT DIRECT to midrange/mainframe by browser) - I know, I did that for many companies over 2++ decades & DID THEM A FAVOR TOO).
* So guess what/New NEWS: You LOSE!
(Best par is clearing MY GOOD NAME as a Tax paying citizen of the USA as being up-to-date on my "CIVIC DUTIES" & obligations vs. YOUR BULLSHIT dumbo... lol!)
Plus YOU EVEN GOT ME PAID MONIES OWED ME TOO for credits not issued my way in a check I did not get also, just as I noted in the link below too - DOUBLE BONUS for "yours truly"!
Proof is that there is NO WAY I could get them to "clear me" IF I owed in less than 1 day's time & PROOF I ALREADY LONG AGO PAID UP! IF say, I paid it today? It'd still be STALE DATA out there UNTIL THEY VERIFY THEIR RECORDS I paid, 1st. There'd be too much time in bank transfers etc. for THAT to happen instantly like it did - error was on STALE WEBSITE DATA, not my part, by the county/city!
APK
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from ME yest erday here https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=45162&page=1&cid=1182969#commentwrap [soylentnews.org] so again: THANKS FOR DOING ME A FAVOR ON SEVERAL FRONTS while you tried to "hurt me" but ONLY ENDED UP SHOWING EVERYONE HOW JEALOUS & LAME YOU ARE loser... apk