Lorrainehttps://www.barrons.com/articles/merck-covid-pill-risks-51633398722
2021.. we KNEW since 2021 it was a very bad idea! Me #noScienceGirl saw it right away after reading these 2 articles🤦🏻♀️
#novavax couldn’t get approval for an eternity but #merck #molnupiravir w/ it’s KNOWN issues..altho issues presented themselves differently & worse than anticipated
#FDA is no longer holds the values of the agency it was when first founded #corruption
The chemical compound on which molnupiravir is based—C9H13N3O6, or N4-hydroxycytidine—has been known for decades. Like idoxuridine, the herpes drug, it’s a nucleoside analogue. It interferes in replication, preventing a threat from causing severe infection. Molnupiravir doesn’t stop the virus from replicating, though; instead, the drug introduces errors into the virus’s RNA that are then replicated until it’s defunct.
With antivirals such as this, “basically you’re going to put a piece of sand in the gears and hope it stops the impact of the virus,” says Gomez, the former Niaid scientist. But, he adds, stopping the virus by creating errors in the genetic code or through other means can come with unintended consequences. “You don’t know where the sand might end up in the other parts of the body.” A company called Pharmasset Inc. (a hepatitis C drugmaker Gilead bought in 2011) investigated molnupiravir’s main ingredient around the turn of the century, but it abandoned development over concerns that it was mutagenic, meaning it could lead to birth defects.
Molnupiravir works by incorporating itself into the genetic material of the virus, and then causing a huge number of mutations as the virus replicates, effectively killing it. In some lab tests, the drug has also shown the ability to integrate into the genetic material of mammalian cells, causing mutations as those cells replicate.
If that were to happen in the cells of a patient being treated with molnupiravir, it could theoretically lead to cancer or birth defects.
were that🌙
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