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Re:Omicron extensively but incompletely escapes Pfizer vacci... by spurgu on Sunday December 26, 2021 @11:49PM (#29699381)
A Covid treatment with happiness as a side effect? Sign me up! ;)

Is there a problem with taking SSRI's for 10 days though?

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Re:Omicron extensively but incompletely escapes Pfizer vacci... by ck2 on Monday December 27, 2021 @12:26AM (#29699610)
It's a misunderstanding SSRIs "make you happy".

They are powerful manipulators of brain (and body) chemistry.

And yes, you are right to suspect taking SSRI for 10 days is a problem, most SSRI have serious withdrawal symptoms too and interact with common things like caffeine very badly.

But that pfizer pill is months away from significant quantities which is way too late for omicron and nothing else works on it (like MABs) so doctors have a big problem with no tools in the toolbox.

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Re:Omicron extensively but incompletely escapes Pfizer vacci... by spurgu on Monday December 27, 2021 @12:50AM (#29699786)
Ok, I don't know that much about SSRI's but I have a hard time believing that withdrawal symptoms (after 10 days of use) would be worse than a Covid case warranting treatment (= a serious one).

MABs not working on Omicron was new to me. Is that based on the vaccine's (in)efficacy against it?

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Re:Omicron extensively but incompletely escapes Pfizer vacci... by spurgu on Monday December 27, 2021 @02:25PM (#29705851)
> MABs not working on Omicron was new to me. Is that based on the vaccine's (in)efficacy against it?

To answer my own question, no:

> But a slew of publications posted on preprint servers report laboratory evidence that Omicron is totally or partially resistant to all currently available treatments based on these monoclonal antibodies.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-03829-0

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