Which patients will be prescribed the new COVID antiviral pills? And when should they start taking them? We're answering your questions here:
Unfortunately, the United States is in the midst of a shortage of COVID tests caused by the sudden surge in Omicron infections.
There are other concerns beyond the fact that the drugs won't work if the regimen isn't fully carried out. Molnupiravir works by introducing mistakes into COVID-19's genetic code, causing the virus to churn out faulty copies and eventually run itself into the ground. Some infectious disease experts are worried that if people don't take the full course, it could lead to new and potentially more dangerous variants of COVID.
"The states are being allocated a very limited number of these medications at the present time. It will expand as we get into 2022, but initially they'll have a very limited amount of these courses of treatment available," Schaffner said. "One would anticipate those are going to be free, but I have not seen a clear statement about that," Schaffner said.COVID vaccines work by producing antibodies that attack the coronavirus' spike protein -- the part of the virus that helps it invade human cells. The new variants are the virus' response to those antibodies, as the coronavirus attempts to mutate its way around vaccine protection.
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