The Covid Treatment That Comes in a Pill Bottle

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🗓️ 1 November 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Pharmaceutical giant Merck has developed a drug against Covid, the first treatment that wouldn't require hospitalization. But WSJ's Jared S. Hopkins tells us distributing it equitably around the world will be a challenge. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Our colleague Jared Hopkins has been following a promising COVID drug that regulators may
0:10.4	authorize soon.
0:12.3	And it's called Maul New Pirevere.
0:15.0	Maul New Pirevere?
0:17.0	Maul New Pirevere.
0:19.2	I think it's named after the hammer and of Thor, the classic character.
0:24.2	Seriously?
0:25.2	Yeah.
0:26.2	No way.
0:27.2	What's the hammer of Thor called?
0:29.0	I think it's called like Maul New?
0:31.0	Oh, okay.
0:32.0	Let's just Thor Hammer name.
0:36.0	Oh, I see.
0:37.0	Yeah, Maul Nier.
0:39.7	It's an old Norse, obviously not my first language.
0:44.8	Maul New Pirevere is not an ancient mythical hammer.
0:48.3	It's not a vaccine.
0:50.0	It's a tiny red pill.
0:52.3	Maul New Pirevere is a promising COVID-19 drug and has the potential to be a game changer.
0:58.6	It's an oral drug.
1:02.4	It's something that you or I could take at home.
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