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| Science & Technology |
| COVID Antiviral Pills Cause Life-Threatening Reactions When Used With Many Common Meds: FDA |
| 2022-01-01 |
| [ET] Pfizer’s antiviral oral drug developed to treat COVID-19 can cause severe or life-threatening effects when used with common medications including some anti-coagulants, some anti-depressants, and some cholesterol-lowering statins, according to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) (pdf). FDA does not recommend Paxlovid for those with severe kidney or liver disease. The FDA on Dec. 22 granted emergency use authorization (EUA) to Pfizer’s COVID-19 treatment pill as treatment for mild-to-moderate cases of COVID-19 in patients from 12 years of age. Paxlovid was the first oral medication of its kind authorized by the FDA to treat COVID-19, with the aim of reducing the need for hospitalization before patients become too ill from the infection. "This authorization provides a new tool to combat COVID-19 at a crucial time in the pandemic as new variants emerge and promises to make antiviral treatment more accessible to patients who are at high risk for progression to severe COVID-19," stated Patrizia Cavazzoni, director of the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #13 #10 Exactly. Hear, hear. One for the history books. Unbelievable folly. |
| Posted by: Merrick Ferret 2022-01-01 23:18 |
| #12 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4025977/posts |
| Posted by: Woozle Slineth3115 2022-01-01 17:59 |
| #11 They reacted to the Chinese Virus as if we were in 15th century Italy fighting the Plague |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2022-01-01 17:49 |
| #10 The response to this pandemic by our public health authorities will go down in history as the most disastrous in modern times. There will be a coordinated effort to rewrite history about these monumental errors. We have been told for 2 years that there are only 3 things that will help us; masks, lockdowns and novel therapies like these “vaccines”. You can not go a day without hearing hundreds of references to these 3 courses of action. Every time I turn in the radio it is an ad for the vaccines. Now we are being told these novel treatments, the antiviral pills at hundreds of dollars per course, may be the answer. Clinicians who actually treat many Covid patients know there are dozens of cheap and effective agents that can help lessen the severity of the disease yet there is almost no effort to promote them. In fact, there has been a concerted effort to withhold availability of these and lie about them (like the Ivermectin is only for horses or HCQ is fish tank cleaner, etc) Public health authorities have even gone to great lengths to make sure pharmacies take supplements like NAC or quinine off the shelves. And the big chain pharmacies won’t fill prescriptions for Ivermectin or HCQ. These “public health” authorities would rather people die than have them find solutions outside of there 3 mandates. Don’t you ever wonder why in 2 years time there has been no effort, no radio ads or TV commercials or anything for that matter, that would help people prophylactically, or as early treatment at home in the early stages of the disease should they get it? Things like boosting your vitamin D, add in some zinc, protect the lungs from clotting with a low dose of aspirin if you get the disease, etc., etc., etc. We could have saved hundreds of thousands of lives by promoting safe and simple immune boosting measures rather than the a sole focus on the 3, experimental “vaccines”, masks and lockdowns. The public health authorities should be driven out in shame from their ivory towers. |
| Posted by: Woozle Slineth3115 2022-01-01 17:42 |
| #9 Point is it's a scam when cheaper original meds will do. Without kill you. |
| Posted by: Woodrow 2022-01-01 15:14 |
| #8 "If you're in the 'kidney or liver disease' checkout lane, does it really matter ?" So basically this is stuff you're not going to be allowed to take you've had Remdesivir in the past, which puts you in the kidney disease category. I guess they're not going to allow actual treatments that don't have a poison pill... |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2022-01-01 13:55 |
| #7 I meant insurance. It took five passes until I replaced everything the spam filter does not like. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-01-01 06:41 |
| #6 So. You have to decide if you are sick enough (probably a bit late by then). Then you need to know if it's contra-indicated by your other meds or health state. Then you need a piece of paper to go to the store with. Then you need a store that will dispense. You may well be out-of-pocket if your insured is woke and says "no." That's a lot of puzzle pieces that have to come together. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-01-01 06:40 |
| #5 FDA fact sheet for molnupiravir, another oral anti-COVID drug: https://www.fda.gov/media/155055/download?ftag=MSF0951a18 |
| Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 2022-01-01 01:33 |
| #4 Walmart finding aid for WM or Sam's Club pharmacies stocking Paxlovid: https://www.walmart.com/cp/authorized-covid-19-medication/2766660 |
| Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 2022-01-01 01:30 |
| #3 FDA fact sheet for Paxlovid: https://www.fda.gov/media/155051/download |
| Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 2022-01-01 01:30 |
| #2 Trying to reformulated Ivermectin for patient profit didn't work? What a surprizzer! |
| Posted by: Woodrow 2022-01-01 00:57 |
| #1 If you're in the 'kidney or liver disease' checkout lane, does it really matter ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2022-01-01 00:18 |