King Heffy Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 2 hours ago, nuckin_futz said: Covid: Pfizer says antiviral pill 89% effective in high risk cases An experimental pill to treat Covid developed by the US company Pfizer cuts the risk of hospitalisation or death by 89% in vulnerable adults, clinical trial results suggest. The drug - Paxlovid - is intended for use soon after symptoms develop in people at high risk of severe disease. It comes a day after the UK medicines regulator approved a similar treatment from Merck Sharp and Dohme (MSD). Pfizer says it stopped trials early as the initial results were so positive. The UK has already ordered 250,000 courses of the new Pfizer treatment along with another 480,000 courses of MSD's molnupiravir pill. The Pfizer drug, known as a protease inhibitor, is designed to block an enzyme the virus needs in order to multiply. When taken alongside a low dose of another antiviral pill called ritonavir, it stays in the body for longer. Three pills are taken twice a day for five days. The combination treatment works slightly differently to the Merck pill which introduces errors into the genetic code of the virus. Pfizer said it plans to submit interim trial results for its pill to the US medicines regulator, the FDA, as part of the emergency use application it started last month. The company's chairman and chief executive officer Albert Bourla said the pill had "the potential to save patients' lives, reduce the severity of Covid-19 infections, and eliminate up to nine out of 10 hospitalisations". Trial results Vaccines against Covid-19 are seen as the best way of controlling the pandemic but there is also demand for treatments that can be taken at home, particularly for vulnerable people who become infected. Interim data from trials of the treatment in 1,219 high-risk patients who had recently been infected with Covid found that 0.8% of those given Paxlovid were hospitalised compared with 7% of patients who were given a placebo or dummy pill. They were treated within three days of Covid symptoms starting. Seven patients given the placebo died compared to none in the group given the pill. When treated within five days of symptoms appearing, 1% given Paxlovid ended up in hospital and none died. This compared to 6.7% of the placebo group being hospitalised and 10 of them dying. Patients in the trial were elderly or had an underlying health condition which put them at higher risk of serious illness from Covid. They all had mild to moderate symptoms of coronavirus. Pfizer is also studying the treatment's impact on people at low risk of Covid illness and on those who have already been exposed to the virus by someone in their household. Will be interesting to see if the antivax crowd uses this experimental drug from Pfizer or sticks with their horsey pills. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JM_ Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 32 minutes ago, King Heffy said: Will be interesting to see if the antivax crowd uses this experimental drug from Pfizer or sticks with their horsey pills. they'll go with the new drug, mostly due to access but also somewhere in the corners of their brains they know something is out there that covers their idiot assess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JM_ Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 10 hours ago, stawns said: Are people doing walk in or appt? appointment, but only for work scheduling reasons. The pharmacy we went to had no line ups and was doing walks ins as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedestroyerofworlds Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 1 hour ago, King Heffy said: Will be interesting to see if the antivax crowd uses this experimental drug from Pfizer or sticks with their horsey pills. 27 minutes ago, JM_ said: they'll go with the new drug, mostly due to access but also somewhere in the corners of their brains they know something is out there that covers their idiot assess. Just don't tell some of them that their horsey drug and this one was either created with or tested with...those fetal cell lines they're so worried about. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mj2345 Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 https://bc.ctvnews.ca/40-people-at-b-c-church-test-positive-for-covid-19-pastor-warns-of-surge-of-medical-concern-1.5653851 40 people at Church in Abbotsford have Covid 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spur1 Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 22 minutes ago, Mj2345 said: https://bc.ctvnews.ca/40-people-at-b-c-church-test-positive-for-covid-19-pastor-warns-of-surge-of-medical-concern-1.5653851 40 people at Church in Abbotsford have Covid Cults. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUPERTKBD Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 9 hours ago, FaninMex said: Slovenia is very anti-vax Hmmm....maybe they should ask Mrs Bone Spurs to do a PSA..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post RUPERTKBD Posted November 5, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted November 5, 2021 2 hours ago, King Heffy said: Will be interesting to see if the antivax crowd uses this experimental drug from Pfizer or sticks with their horsey pills. I actually heard about a guy who had success with taking the horsey pills.... ....they said his condition was stable.... 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Heffy Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 1 minute ago, RUPERTKBD said: I actually heard about a guy who had success with taking the horsey pills.... ....they said his condition was stable.... I thought we were done with the tacky jokes... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EOTM Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 3 minutes ago, King Heffy said: I thought we were done with the tacky jokes... nay 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stawns Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 6 minutes ago, RUPERTKBD said: I actually heard about a guy who had success with taking the horsey pills.... ....they said his condition was stable.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johngould21 Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 (edited) 22 minutes ago, RUPERTKBD said: I actually heard about a guy who had success with taking the horsey pills.... ....they said his condition was stable.... it was, when they reigned him in. Edited November 5, 2021 by johngould21 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Heffy Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 4 minutes ago, johngould21 said: it was, until they reigned him in. Hay wait a minute, are we going to completely discount his tail as being false? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUPERTKBD Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 23 minutes ago, King Heffy said: I thought we were done with the tacky jokes... I suppose I could rein them in.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUPERTKBD Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 8 minutes ago, johngould21 said: it was, when they reigned him in. Psst....John....that's the wrong kind of "reigned".....unless they made him a king..... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JM_ Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 1 hour ago, Mj2345 said: https://bc.ctvnews.ca/40-people-at-b-c-church-test-positive-for-covid-19-pastor-warns-of-surge-of-medical-concern-1.5653851 40 people at Church in Abbotsford have Covid I just don't get it. There is nothing in the Bible about needing to be anti-science or medicine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spur1 Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 14 minutes ago, JM_ said: I just don't get it. There is nothing in the Bible about needing to be anti-science or medicine. All about cult control. Just like Trump they need to keep those donations rolling in. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johngould21 Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 34 minutes ago, RUPERTKBD said: Psst....John....that's the wrong kind of "reigned".....unless they made him a king..... hah! rain, rain is on my mind today. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alflives Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 Aaron Rogers is a complete IDIOT!!! Holy crap! What a fool? Too funny! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canuck Surfer Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/world/man-dies-two-weeks-after-sharing-video-boasting-about-covid-19-symptoms-but-saying-virus-wasnt-real/ar-AAQmL2c?li=AAgfYrC revealed he had recently taken ivermectin, an anti-parasite medication that has been promoted in conservative circles as a treatment for Covid-19 despite a lack of conclusive evidence that it helps people with the virus. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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