I would probably just take advice of the prescribing clinician as I do with every other medication! I am very glad and grateful for this development and there will be others in process no doubt.
I would probably just take advice of the prescribing clinician as I do with every other medication! I am very glad and grateful for this development and there will be others in process no doubt.
But I don't have any special knowledge or understanding of this drug or how it's been developed. But I have an opinion, like everyone else.
I started a post last night and then deleted it before I posted. Basically it echoed what GrannieBabi said. Take the drug if you need it, or not, it's up to you. If we worry about every potential side effect of every lifesaving drug we might come across we'll never take anything.
Callistemon I think she has a scientific background. It would be helpful if she could comment on eg the process of development, how this drug might differ from others etc. Googling might only give you what the drug manufacturers have posted. Drugs are commercially sensitive.
I have myeloma, a blood cancer. Both the disease and the chemotherapy treatment attack the immune system, which makes me very vulnerable, I trust the licensing authorities and would have to choose death in the future from possible side effect over death next week from Covid!
The new covid pill was licensed for adults 18 and older who have tested positive for COVID-19 and have at least one risk factor for developing severe disease, such as obesity or heart disease. Patients with mild-to-moderate COVID-19 would take four pills of the drug, known molnupiravir, twice a day for five days. I researched this drug molnupiravir and was alarmed to read about the potential dangers the antiviral drug molnupiravir could unleash by supercharging new SARS-CoV-2 variants. Theres a possibility that molnupiravir could lead to cancerous tumors in those patients and birth defects in the unborn.