New COVID-19 pills may keep recently diagnosed patients out of hospital, company says.
Pharmaceutical company Merck says Molnupiravir, an antiviral, could reduce people's risk of dying from the virus.over five days, shortly after COVID-19 diagnosis, may slash the risk of being hospitalized or dying of the virus by 50%, according to preliminary results announced by pharmaceutical companies Merck and Ridgeback.
Right now, most COVID-19 patients are sent home and told to monitor their symptoms. Having an effective pill to offer them would"make a difference," Del Rio added. The vaccine status of the trial volunteers was not disclosed in the press release, but doctors say pills like this should never be taken as an alternative to vaccines, which have been tested in hundreds of thousands of people across massive clinical trials, and are the most powerful way to dramatically reduce the risk of being hospitalized or dying of COVID -- and reduce the risk of becoming infected in the first place.
"What we really need is the Tamiflu, if you will, for COVID-19," Dr. Todd Ellerin, the director of infectious diseases at South Shore Health and an ABC News Med Unit contributor, said."It's possible that molnupiravir could be the agent."
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