Comments by "Deborah Freedman" (@deborahfreedman333) on "Merck: Pill to treat Covid-19 cuts risk of death by half" video.

  1.  @skellington2000  The molecular structure of this drug is already on wikipedia. Wrong again.
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  2. OK, this often happens, in double blind studies, when a drug is super effective. They have broken the test subjects into test and control groups, the test group gets the drug, and the control group gets a placebo. But, when it is obvious that half the patients are doing much better than the other half, the secrecy of who is in which group is broken, and those in the control group are also given the drug. It is considered immoral to allow half to suffer, when efficacy has already been demonstrated.
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  3. That's nice, but this is nothing like that drug. HSV (herpes simplex virus) is a dsDNA virus, and coronaviruses are ssRNA. This new drug prevents coronavirus mechanisms of detecting viral RNA replication errors.
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  4. Targeted antiviral, safe and effective. Antimalarial, useless against a virus, dangerous.
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