‘Game-changing’ new Covid pill ‘will be here in weeks’ – Independent.ie

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  1. Some fantastic news here. The people who were involved in creating this are absolute heroes.

    * > Pfizer announced yesterday that its final analysis of Paxlovid shows that if given within three days of the onset of Covid-19 symptoms, it reduces the risk of hospitalisation and death by 89pc.

    * > The risk is reduced by almost as much – 88pc – if given within five days.

    * > is effective against the Omicron variant

  2. Hopefully it will get us closer to the government fucking off out of our lives again. Give me all of them. Make a suppository version so I can double speed of intake.

  3. ‘has **privately** told senior Coalition figures it would probably be in a position to supply them to Ireland as early as the end of January or in February’

    If you ever want something to become public knowledge tell a TD and it’ll be front page news the next day.

  4. Wasn’t the booster a game changer then the second booster and now we’re on booster 4. As far as I’m concerned this is fake news until its actually released and the real world concrete stats are there to show it’s effectiveness.

    Tbh the media just needs to stfu with calling everything a game changer.

  5. I’m convinced a lot of anri-vaxxers are just scared of needles and got roped into the madness.

    I think a good percentage of them will take this.

  6. Can’t wait for variant triple dipple x and this doesn’t matter, the boosters don’t matter. And we get lockdown again.

    I have absolutely no faith in anything changing the current state of things especially with this government.

  7. > Pfizer, which announced the results of its final analysis of its drug Paxlovid yesterday, has privately told Simon Harris and Leo Varadkar it would probably be in a position to supply them to Ireland as early as the end of January or in February, subject to regulatory approval, the Irish Independent understands.

  8. I just can’t understand how this has taken over a month since the EMA approved these anti viral drugs to be talked about here.

    They have been producing it in Cork for a few weeks now and the Israeli government have order shit loads not sure if they are allready using it or not?

    Anyone know is it NIAC that would approve this or a different body? I’m asking because NIAC are slow as f**k.

  9. If the anti vaxxer Community react badly to this news we should refer to them as the pro covid community.

    If horse tablets are OK, surely this should get yhe thumbs up, amirite?

  10. 🤣🤣This new type of drug from Pfizer and Merck was originally developed to treat equine encephalitis in horses.

    https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8277160

    ” The discovery and early development of molnupiravir actually began in 2013 with a focus on finding an orally available, direct acting antiviral agent for the treatment of infection by the encephalitic New World alphavirus VEEV (Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus) “

  11. We will still be locking down. No amount of pills will plaster over the healthcare shit show.

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