Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

[Torillian]

haxxiy said:

EricHiggin said:

This evening on Global News here they said that Merck, makers of Ivermectin, are apparently close to having a new pill that you can take daily that supposedly reduces the risk of covid infection by 50%. I know Merk was also working on something they said was having great effect in terms of heavily reducing transmission, so I'd guess it's probably the same thing. Can't help but wonder how close to Ivermectin it might be, just with another name.

Ivermectin does reduce viral load in the lungs... at around 20 times the maximum safe dosage in adults. So I'd assume it's something else entirely unless they made a huge breakthrough and managed to somehow select the peptides with antiviral properties and found they lack the corresponding citotoxicity.

Regardless it will definitely require prescriptions, whether it is an antiviral or an antibody cocktail. These things can select for viral resistance if administered willy-nilly.

The unfortunate part is that "close to Ivermectin" is such a low bar when it comes to chemistry. Many drugs are "close to" one another in structure but that completely changes their efficacy. I'm sure that whatever Merck announces people will overlay it with ivermectin and say it's the same, just changed slightly to make it more expensive and to not "trigger the libs".