COVID-19 'game changer oral antiviral drug Molnupiravir blocks COVID-19 transmission within 24 hours

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In a news release, GSU said MK-4482/EIDD-2801, or Molnupiravir, has appeared to suppress the transmission of the coronavirus within just 24 hours.

“This is the first demonstration of an orally available drug to rapidly block SARS-CoV-2 transmission,” said Dr. Richard Plemper, the professor at Georgia State who led the group. "MK-4482/EIDD-2801 could be game-changing.”

Researchers said that since this is an oral drug, treatment can be started early for a potentially three-fold benefit:

• inhibiting patients’ progress to severe disease
• shortening the infectious phase
• rapidly silence local outbreaks

If these ferret-based results translate to humans in further studies, the scientists believe COVID-19 patients treated with the drug could become non-infectious within 24 hours after the beginning of treatment.

https://www.thehansindia.com/telang...2-deaths-in-telangana-660034?infinitescroll=1
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-020-00835-2

 

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Still under Phase II/III trial stage....