A mere 20 years after it was first developed at the Hershey Medical Center in Pennsylvania with funding from Vertex, Baloxavir marboxil a one-dose influenza (flu) integrase-inhibitor will be approved in various countries around the world and released by Roche and Shionogi Pharmaceuticals.
If you want Baloxavir marboxil right away a year or two early, gram quantities are costly but available "for research purposes only, wink-wink, say no more".
Baloxavir is mixed with DMSO, a paper pulp byproduct which allows large molecules to pentrate skin and other tissue, as a method of administration.
Roche also sells the much less effective Tamiflu which acts on a variable flu gene and Johnson & Johnson whose unapproved pimodovir works in a similar manner on a different but also variable influenza structure.
Nizoral, an anti-parasitic already on market which can be prescribed by any physician off-label, reduces the number of new influenza virus released by infected cell, also by acting on a viral structure, and is in clinical trials, but has nowhere near the effectiveness of Baloxavir.
We've run out of other people's Social Security taxes needed to subsidize our low income tax rates.