UK first to approve oral antiviral molnupiravir to treat Covid

[butterscotch]

UK is the first to approve a new oral antiviral drug to combat covid-19. Elderly will be given priority in a NHS study.

The UK medicines regulator has become the first in the world to approve an oral antiviral pill for Covid in a move that paves the way for tens of thousands of vulnerable patients to receive the treatment from this winter.

Nearly half a million doses of molnupiravir, a pill that can be taken twice daily at home, are due for delivery from mid-November and will be given as a priority to elderly Covid patients and those with particular vulnerabilities, such as weakened immune systems. The drug will initially be given to patients through a national study run by the NHS.

UK is first to approve oral antiviral pill to treat Covid

[LongDriver]

This news made for good reading and hopefully it will prove to be the defining moment in combatting C-19’s after effects

[Gee3]

My sister would have appreciated these. Her ward was turned into a covid ward & she has thus had covid twice, as have most of her colleagues. Which is not a great situation to be in when your husband has a weakened immune system due to Cancer.

[Donkeyman]

@butterscotch , does this mean that all we need to combat
covid is a couple of cough sweets ??
Blimey !!
Donkeyman!