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Oomer, Irfan, your report on science here at Vox, we got some big COVID-19 news on Monday.

What happened?

Monday, Merck, this $200 billion pharmaceutical giant filed for an emergency use authorization

from the Food and Drug Administration for its new anti-COVID, antiviral drug.

What does it look like?

It's a little brown pill.

A little brown pill.

Yeah.

If it's approved, it will likely be the first oral treatment for COVID-19.

The trial was designed to be given to people early in the course of infection.

It's an orally administered drug that's really very important.

It's prescribed as four pills taken twice a day for five days, though the dosing regimen

may change as regulators review the data.

Well, this is certainly an important advance.

There's no doubt about that.

Whenever you have an orally administered medical intervention that directly attacks the

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