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A comment on Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, death by 85%. Parent comment
If this drug is safe and can be made sufficiently cheap, it could be a great treatment for most kinds of common cold.
Why suffer for weeks with cold symptoms if you can simply spray this up your nose and feel better?
It could (potentially) be used similarly to Tamiflu.
The majority of the common cold cases is caused by rhinoviruses. But yes, like 20% (ballpark) are caused by coronaviruses.
If this drug is safe and can be made sufficiently cheap, it could be a great treatment for most kinds of common cold.
Why suffer for weeks with cold symptoms if you can simply spray this up your nose and feel better?
It could (potentially) be used similarly to Tamiflu.