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I'm starting to get pretty optimistic. There seem to be a bunch of antivirals with very different mechanisms of action - this one blocks entry of the virus to cells, Molnupiravir fucks up accurate replication of the virus (nucleoside analog), others are protease inhibitors, which are very effective against HIV. There's a caveat, most treatments that look promising don't pan out, but there are a lot in the pipeline an…
Having said that, we have a good demographic understanding of who tends to get severe Covid-19, and a large testing capacity, so a cheap anti-viral treatment with few side effects could still be effectively deployed.
I'm starting to get pretty optimistic. There seem to be a bunch of antivirals with very different mechanisms of action - this one blocks entry of the virus to cells, Molnupiravir fucks up accurate replication of the virus (nucleoside analog), others are protease inhibitors, which are very effective against HIV. There's a caveat, most treatments that look promising don't pan out, but there are a lot in the pipeline an…
A limiting factor for the effectiveness of anti-virals for Covid is time. Maximum viral load happens often happens before any symptoms are present, and the most severe diseases occurs weeks after infection as a result of the bodies inflammatory response instead of the virus itself. This means that by the time you know that a patient will have severe Covid-19, it is likely too late for any treatment that is based on i…
0. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8203399/#!po=12...
1. https://www.google.com/amp/s/theconversation.com/amp/what-ar... NOTE: it's getting hard to search for sources that mention this fact, and now that what little faith I've had in our institutions has effectively been destroyed, I suspect this is an emergent, collective, deliberate exclusion. Wouldn't want to give the proles any strange ideas about "conspiracy theories" and such.
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A limiting factor for the effectiveness of anti-virals for Covid is time. Maximum viral load happens often happens before any symptoms are present, and the most severe diseases occurs weeks after infection as a result of the bodies inflammatory response instead of the virus itself. This means that by the time you know that a patient will have severe Covid-19, it is likely too late for any treatment that is based on i…
There are some interesting nasal sprays that wipe out early viral load in the nose and throat that are available right now. ImmuneMist and XClear for example.
https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/warning-letters/warning-lett...
I'm curious how was this published October 26, 2021? (Currently Oct 15)
> PNAS October 26, 2021 118 (43) e2108728118; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2108728118 I'm curious how was this published October 26, 2021? (Currently Oct 15)
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It is helpful. Ivermectin works so well Pfizer is copying it.
https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-067310377629
"Several posts circulating online wrongly suggest that the pills are the same because ivermectin also acts like a protease inhibitor and keeps the virus from replicating. Ivermectin continues to be studied in relation to COVID-19, however, it has yet to be proven that it can treat COVID-19."