Dude, who even knows.

23rd December 2022

Post reblogged from Slapstick Tragic Spaceship Blackrom with 26 notes

manyblinkinglights:

poipoipoi-2016:

kontextmaschine:

Huh. Hearing that the “antivirals” they give the immunosuppressed re:Covid work by inducing genetic mutation, and while this usually results in non-viable virus code (that’s the mechanism, after all) some fraction is highly mutated but still viable, some fraction of that fraction is in fact more viable than the parent strain, and applied across a whole-humanity disease that already has such a high “R” of new infections seeded per established case the effect is to accelerate its evolution

IIRC, this was the one that started with M and not Paxlovid.

Also yes, that was noticed at the time along with drastically reduced efficacy over Paxlovid and while that’s been its own thing (Kill a puppy to a get a 10/15-dose course IMO. 5 isn’t long enough), I’d take the Paxlovid thing over the mutation thing.

Yeah, molnupiravir or something (sic, I’m not looking it up). My med twitter mutual was bitching up a storm about it today. It doesn’t do anything but up your cancer risk and hypermutate the coronavirus, etc.

Yeah, that’s it. Okay, this was re: a drug in testing, worrier Twitter combines apocalypticism with grounded biomedical understanding in a way that’s hard to tease apart sometimes.

  1. rustingbridges reblogged this from poipoipoi-2016 and added:
    so can you just buy paxlovid now or is it still a pain in the ass to get
  2. rendakuenthusiast reblogged this from kontextmaschine and added:
    What happens if you just give this drug to random people without checking what, if any, respiratory viruses they may be...
  3. catchandelier reblogged this from manyblinkinglights
  4. poipoipoi-2016 reblogged this from kontextmaschine and added:
    No, it was approved. ...It was really funny to see extremely pro-meds, pro-vaxx, at least...
  5. kontextmaschine reblogged this from manyblinkinglights and added:
    Yeah, that's it. Okay, this was re: a drug in testing, worrier Twitter combines apocalypticism with grounded biomedical...
  6. manyblinkinglights reblogged this from poipoipoi-2016 and added:
    Yeah, molnupiravir or something (sic, I’m not looking it up). My med twitter mutual was bitching up a storm about it...