(04-11-2024, 03:52 PM)Lucky2Last Wrote: Remember when we couldn't take Ivermectin because it did nothing, but Paxlovid, a new and very expensive drug, was going to actually help us?

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2309003

Yeah. Didn't do nothing. I seriously can't believe that folks can't see how our treatment and guidelines were not DIRECTLY affected by profit.

Annnnnnd, the counter points since you didn't bother to post that from the same issue of the NEJM.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2402224

"Clearly, the benefit observed among unvaccinated high-risk persons does not extend to those at lower risk for severe Covid-19. This result supports guidelines that recommend nirmatrelvir–ritonavir only for persons who are at high risk for disease progression."

In other words, it works on the groups of people the prescribing guidelines said it would.

https://paxlovid.pfizerpro.com/access-su...lsrc=aw.ds

[font=Inter]PAXLOVID is indicated for the treatment of mild-to-moderate coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in adults who are at high risk for progression to severe COVID-19, including hospitalization or death.[/font]

[font=Inter][font=Inter]Limitations of Use [/font]PAXLOVID is not approved for use as pre-exposure or post-exposure prophylaxis for prevention of COVID-19. [/font]

Neat how that works!

I also found it interesting that the study you posted is one funded and led by the evil corporate monsters at Pfizer and you were quick to jump in and endorse the outcomes. It's seems so out of character for such awful people to create such a thing since all scholarship is corrupt and lacking integrity, but for you to believe them? Astonishing really. 

Why do you think Pfizer would publish a study with these results rather than quash them? Because the drug does what it's supposed to do but, according to this study, doesn't treat Covid-19 in all circumstances. Like they said when it came out. Or in other words, you don't just give drugs willy nilly because it might work like people proposed with the Ivermectin claims.

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(04-14-2024, 08:09 AM)StroudCrowd1 Wrote: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1779...uy6AQ&s=19

They are still out there mutating, but fortunately through the combination of evolution, broad exposure and mass vaccination we've reached the point where the virus is far less dangerous than it was a few years ago. Might as well ask where all the variants of the Spanish Flu are, they're out there...just not a direct mass threat any longer. That people use stuff like this to try and score points against the people who said this is what happens is kinda silly...but here we are in clown world!

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