Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, death by 85%

Re:Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, de... by HWR_14 on Friday November 05, 2021 @11:19AM (#29120495)

> Presumably that means you’ll have that risk, plus additional unknown risk.

That's a bad argument. This makes COVID less severe, which in turn makes the long-term affects less severe. Things in medicine are rarely binary.

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Re:Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, de... by lettergram on Friday November 05, 2021 @01:20PM (#29122170)

We don’t actually know if it makes the long term risk less severe or more severe. We don’t have the data.

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Re:Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, de... by HWR_14 on Friday November 05, 2021 @07:30PM (#29125842)

Sure. We also don't know if it will give you superpowers. I mean, we have logic and the history of similar things that gives us good ideas. And the fact that the risks grow because the immune response means a shorter immune response is likely to be less severe long term. But yeah, technically there is no study there yet.

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