molnupiravir

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molnupiravir is a recurring brand in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between December 22, 2021 and December 22, 2021. The archive places it in contexts such as “evidence for molnupiravir is in many ways weaker than fluvoxamine”; “communications about Merck’s drug molnupiravir”. It most often appears alongside budesonide, FDA, fluvoxamine.

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  • Category: Brands
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: December 22, 2021
  • Last seen: December 22, 2021

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December 22, 2021 · Original source
But according to Kelsey Piper at Vox, that’s where they are right now:
[Professor Ed] Mills, who thinks that fluvoxamine and budesonide are both appropriate to prescribe to patients sick with Covid-19, compares public messaging on fluvoxamine to communications about Merck’s drug molnupiravir. The evidence for molnupiravir is in many ways weaker than the evidence for fluvoxamine, but molnupiravir was produced by a major pharmaceutical company that can shepherd it through the process of becoming a recommended drug. On a call last week, Mills said, the FDA told him “they don’t know how to deal with submissions where there isn’t someone to be responsible for it.”
December 22, 2021 · Original source
In my post yesterday, I quoted a Vox article describing work by Dr. Ed Mills and others to get the FDA to approve Luvox for COVID. As of that point, the FDA didn’t know how to process an application without a sponsoring drug company:
[Professor Ed] Mills, who thinks that fluvoxamine and budesonide are both appropriate to prescribe to patients sick with Covid-19, compares public messaging on fluvoxamine to communications about Merck’s drug molnupiravir. The evidence for molnupiravir is in many ways weaker than the evidence for fluvoxamine, but molnupiravir was produced by a major pharmaceutical company that can shepherd it through the process of becoming a recommended drug. On a call last week, Mills said, the FDA told him “they don’t know how to deal with submissions where there isn’t someone to be responsible for it.”