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Torillian on 05 October 2021
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haxxiy said:
Torillian said:

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".

Ivermectin is a polyketide, so while there are many drugs that are similar-ish to it (including azithromycin!), I don't think any of them is even an antiviral. I just checked and Merck's is a nucleoside analogue, so far closer to a typical antiviral like remdesivir or acyclovir.

Though yeah, I can see that being widespread fake news given the company.

Thanks for the info, my organic chemistry game is pretty weak. When I looked up the structure it didn't seem like an obvious nucleoside/tide which is the only drug scaffold that I've read some into. Good to know that it should be obviously different to anyone even mildly informed. 



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