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Re:Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, de... by mchusma on Friday November 05, 2021 @04:07PM (#29124164)
Anecdotally, hearing from doctors working in COVID wards, they consist almost entirely of anti-vaxxers who are now seeking (and receiving) treatments only recently approved. So while not everyone will take this, I think probably many would once they have symptoms.

That said, this does work better it seems if taken early, before the anti-vax sentiment may have worn off. Hard to say.

What it does signal is really the "end of the pandemic". We have both a vaccine (now approved for kids) and a cure. That sounds like it to me.

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Re:Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, de... by laurent92 on Friday November 05, 2021 @04:25PM (#29124363)
This. Being antivax when one has 93% if not facing the virus ≠ refusing drugs when infected. At that point, it’s worth doing everything because the risk is realized.
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Re:Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, de... by sdenton4 on Friday November 05, 2021 @06:01PM (#29125165)
The first three days of symptoms for an anti-vaxxer are obviously just a flu, because covid is fake. It's not covid until they're hooked up to a machine...
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Re:Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, de... by geerlingguy on Friday November 05, 2021 @10:41PM (#29127044)
There are many who won't even get a test now, to check if it's COVID. They ride it out, and won't know if they just had a flu, cold, or COVID. And thus it seems we've currently plateaued in case counts in the US :(
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Re:Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, de... by blindmute on Saturday November 06, 2021 @08:03AM (#29129492)
How does knowing the name of your infection help you? If I'm sick I'm going to stay home and rest, not run to a test clinic out of pure curiosity.
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Re:Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, de... by orra on Saturday November 06, 2021 @09:01AM (#29129860)
A lab in the UK performing PCR tests messed up big time, and returned 40 000 false positives.

40 000 people forced to work by their employers, who then spread it to colleagues and customers, because they had a respiratory disease but ‘it isn’t COVID’.

COVID is particularly bad, but employees should also be allowed to stay home and rest, to not spread the cold and flu.

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Re:Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, de... by ryanobjc on Friday November 05, 2021 @11:48PM (#29127349)
Check out Reddit.com/r/hermancainaward for this exactly
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