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re: Merck’s Molnupiravir and Pfizer’s Antiviral Pills - What are the ingredients?

Posted on 8/23/21 at 2:17 pm to
Posted by the808bass
The Lou
Member since Oct 2012
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Posted on 8/23/21 at 2:17 pm to
Pharmasset

Subsidiary of Gilead

ETA: Pharmasset didn’t say it was because of safety profile.
This post was edited on 8/23/21 at 2:19 pm
Posted by LSUbest
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Member since Aug 2007
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Posted on 8/23/21 at 2:17 pm to
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In April 2020, a whistleblower complaint by former Head of US Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) Rick Bright revealed concerns over providing funding for the further development of molnupiravir due to similar drugs having mutagenic (DNA damaging) properties.[3] A previous company, Pharmasset, that had investigated the drug's active ingredient had abandoned it.


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Posted by GhostOfFreedom
Member since Jan 2021
11835 posts
Posted on 8/23/21 at 2:18 pm to
Isn't the ingredient the core of a dead star or something?

Posted by LSUfor8
Baton Rouge
Member since Nov 2018
324 posts
Posted on 8/23/21 at 2:21 pm to
Amazing that Merck is promoting its newer wonder drug while simultaneously bashing its older drug, Ivermectin, and refusing to do studies on that drug. Big Pharma needs to make bank.
Posted by GhostOfFreedom
Member since Jan 2021
11835 posts
Posted on 8/23/21 at 2:36 pm to
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Big Pharma needs to make bank.


Big Pharma needs its butt whipped. I have defended them most of the time, but their greed has gotten too difficult to defend.

Posted by DownHome
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Member since Jan 2012
10238 posts
Posted on 8/23/21 at 2:49 pm to
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Microscopic bits of HRC’s emails


The one ingredient that will kill you in 2 years. The others are safe and have been on the market for 20+ years. This is how they get you.
Posted by CitizenK
BR
Member since Aug 2019
9631 posts
Posted on 8/23/21 at 2:50 pm to
Generic generally refers to drugs and other chemicals such as herbicides and pesticides which are beyond the term covered under patent laws. Why would a company invest in research
Posted by Ace Midnight
Between sanity and madness
Member since Dec 2006
89613 posts
Posted on 8/23/21 at 2:59 pm to
Soylent Green, mostly.
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