Anthony Fauci, the Italian-American main medical advisor to the White House, recalled that the Merck pill for the treatment of Covid-19 “decreases the likelihood of being hospitalized or dying in people who, at the beginning of the infection, take it. “.
Fauci praised the new drug Molnupiravir which, according to Merck itself, would halve the risk of death or hospitalization from Covid; but then he added, “Do you know the way to reduce the risk by 100 percent? First, don’t get infected at all.”
Anti Covid pill, Merck: “Reduced deaths and hospitalizations by 50%, soon request ok to Fda”
by Fiammetta Cupellaro
Already on Friday at the White House, during a press conference, Fauci had defined the data on the trials that the pharmaceutical company had provided him a few hours earlier “impressive”.
An easy to use and produce pill to treat Covid-19 is obviously an important milestone because current treatments such as monoclonal antibodies require infusions and are difficult to manage as well as being very expensive.
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Merck (MSD in Italy) and partner Ridgeback Biotherapeutics have announced that they will soon ask the US FDA to authorize the drug in an emergency. It would be the first large-scale antiviral pill for Covid-19. These are small brown capsules that need to be taken twice a day for five days.
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