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AUCI CANCELS CHRISTMAS?

Fauci says it's too soon to tell if people can get together for Christmas. SOURCE: Twitter
Yet states like Florida, Texas, Hawaii, and Georgia have been seeing a sharp downward trend in COVID hospitalizations since their peaks at the end of Aug./beginning of Sept. SOURCE: CDC
Florida: Dropped 65%, 16K to 5.5K
Texas: Dropped 40%, 8.2K to 3.5K
Hawaii: Dropped 62%, 434 to 220
Georgia: Dropped 41%, 5.2K to 3K
A number of states have also seen sharp decreases in the 7-Day Moving Avg Deaths since they hit peaks in late August. SOURCE: CDC
Louisiana down 53%
Mississippi down 59%
Florida down 95%

MERCK CREATES NEW COVID PILL TREATMENT

Merck just announced its new COVID-19 pill, Molnupiravir, that reduces hospitalizations and deaths by half. SOURCES: APNews, Merck, NatGeo
Last March, Pfizer also announced an antiviral treatment drug called PF-07321332. SOURCE: Pfizer
Could this new drug be a repurposed IVERMECTIN, since both function as protease inhibitors? SOURCE: PubMed
Money ploy to profit off the pandemic, since the patent on ivermectin expired years ago in 1996. SOURCE: WHO
The media says "NO!"
CLAIM: They are not the same drug and there are MANY protease inhibitors. SOURCE: Snopes
"[Pfizer's COVID-19 pill] currently known as PF-07321332, is a protease inhibitor 'designed to block the activity of the main protease enzyme that the coronavirus needs to replicate.' This drug is not a repackaged version of Ivermectin."
TRUTH: It's true the new drug works as a protease inhibitor.
The binding/docking ability of repurposed drugs like ivermectin and Remdesivir to SARS-CoV-2 has been of interest to researchers for many months. SOURCE: Frontiers
But ivermectin wasn't even developed as a protease inhibitor, yet it's now comparable to other drugs that were! SOURCE: Frontiers
There really is no need to develop new drugs in this class because ivermectin scored off the charts in its ability to bind to different nucleic acids in RNA, disrupting the function of the virus. SOURCE: Frontiers
CLAIM: Well, the new Merck drug is an antiviral while ivermectin is an antiparasitic! SOURCE: Forbes
Antivirals and anti-parasitics can have overlap in use.
But more importantly, what about efficacy and effectiveness?
Merck's Molnupiravir works very similar to Remdesivir. SOURCES: VOX, ScienceNews
And ivermectin BLEW Remdesivir OUT OF THE WATER as an effective protease inhibitor! What reason could Pfizer and Merck have to repurpose these drugs as COVID pills?
The government already has an order of 1.7 million courses of treatment worth about $1.2 billion. SOURCE: NYTimes
This seems like a big payday for these companies, especially when the drugs hits the shelves for home use.
Journal of Antibiotics retracted an article on ivermectin's mechanism of action since we covered it on the show. SOURCE: JournalAntibiotics, JournalAntibiotics
The same journal published an article on the mechanisms of Molnupiravir a month after the retraction. SOURCE:JournalAntibiotics