Merck seeks FDA emergency use authorization for antiviral Covid-19 treatment molnupiravir

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JUST IN: Merck seeks FDA emergency use authorization for molnupiravir, an experimental antiviral pill to treat Covid-19

Merck said Monday it is seeking US Food and Drug Administration emergency use authorization for its experimental antiviral Covid-19 treatment, molnupiravir.

If authorization is granted, the drug, made by Merck and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics, would be the first oral antiviral treatment to fight Covid-19. It comes in capsule form.Merck said it is asking for authorization for the capsules to treat infected adults who are at risk of progressing to severe Covid-19 disease or hospitalization.

"It is very important that this now must go through the usual process of careful examination of the data by the Food and Drug Administration both for effectiveness, but also for safety, because whenever you introduce a new compound, safety is very important," Fauci said, noting that vaccines remain"our best tools against Covid-19" by preventing infection and illness, rather than treating it.

 

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Fox has been reporting this for weeks… couldn’t hide the inevitable🥱

If there is a hope for a good treatment maybe give those people thier jobs back.

Ivermectin is better.

So all Ivermectin is 'horse pace' and is a big no no, but this horse pill used for lethal Venezuelan equine encephalitis is ok...what's the price difference between the two?🤔

about to pop Merck 30s all 2022

nice try, i know what baked beans look like

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I'll do my own research 🤷🏼‍♀️🤣🤣

Ivermectin re branded 😂😂😂

They renamed Ivermectin and made a new pill, sweet!

So there's hope for treatment soon? This is progressive good news.

Hey US_FDA do not approve this until it’s been tried for at least 2 years!!! Or the head of Merck has taken it also. molnupiravir

Let me guess, this contains nanotechnology that turns folks into double agents of the deep state run by lizard people, aliens, satanists and liberals in a plot to destroy everything because a wiping out all life sounds like such a rad idea! 🤦‍♂️

No thanks

Looks like mini 🌭🌭

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Why hasn't VP had her sock puppet POTUS sign an Executive Order to allow the military to use tranquilizer guns to vaccinate people at the anti-vax rallies? DNC has to assert control over the unwashed masses by any means necessary. The Party's vision for America must prevail.

If we got vaccines why do we pills for?

Better then ivermectin... yet I choose vaccine and masks before any other possible option.

97% chance to live in this pill too Like the vaccine So 3% in this case can get very dock and die from COVID-19 anyway. COVID-19 will disappear anonymously... And may come back in a few years more stronger.

Yay! I’m unvaccinated and all for a pill if my body fails me! It will never fail me… but HUGE NEWS FOR THE PEOPLE

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Now...there's pills for covid!? Lol I bet ppl would rather take that than vaccine

Emergency experimental pill 😂

Modified Ivermectin

Not sure we need to keep doing 'emergency use authorization!' It circumvents the proper protocols and has no long term affect data. We have enough COVID meds on the market and no one really knows the long term affects. Everyone needs t take a deep breath and work on legisitics.

ha.. learn the difference in authorization and approval.

maga will probably reject this one as well since it is promoted by someone who are experts…

They call these pills experimental but the COVID-19 vaccination shot isn't ? 🤔

Create the problem, create the solution. But first they made $16 trillion, killed millions of our family members, our economy and businesses! Typical Illuminati, deep state, reptilian Freemason tactics! FOH

Rolls off the tongue….molnupiravir! If your tongue was a multi-tentacle-hell-beast. Anyway, what are we talking about?

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Who in hell dreams up these ridiculous names for new drugs?

$700 for a bunch of pills. A protiase inhibitor just like the $3 one, but works entirely different and more expensively.

Just waiting on the hypocritical antivax to beg for this experimental drug when they get Covid

What exactly is the 'emergency' please

Same company that brought you Ivermectin. 😂

Merck, AstraZenica et al have been getting EUAs for a long time now. Is that a bad thing?

cnni Is it possible that Covid is a bioweapon?

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Key word is experimental.

So it’s ivermectin but repacked and with the price jacked up.

good luck

Yes let's eat those experimental pills

what about the vaccine?

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