Coronapod: new hope from COVID antiviral drugs
Nature Podcast
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4.5 • 893 Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2021
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Two new anti-viral pills have been shown to be safe and effective against COVID in clinical trials, according to recent press releases. The drugs, molnupiravir, developed by Merck and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics, and Paxlovid, developed by Pfizer both appear to significantly reduce hospitalisation in people with early COVID. Some researchers are quietly hopeful that these new weapons in the anti-COVID arsenal could have a big impact, in particular in parts of the world where vaccines are still not widely available, but there are a number of caveats. In this episode of Coronapod, we open the pill boxes and pick through the contents - asking how the drugs work, what side effects we might see and how, if at all, they might change the course of the pandemic.
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| 1:17.8 | Welcome to CoronaPod. |
| 1:24.6 | In this show, we're going to bring you nature's take on the latest COVID-19 developments. |
| 1:29.7 | And we'll be speaking to experts around the world about research during the pandemic. |
| 1:33.7 | We're entering a new era now. |
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