Innovation Pharmaceuticals Inc (IPIX)

[sunspotter]

"MRK drug is useless."

Hardly.

If you contract mild-to-moderate COVID-19, then you are half as likely to be hospitalised if you take the Merck drug than if you don't. And much less likely to die - there were no deaths in the treated arm but 8 deaths in the placebo arm: two out of every hundred patients in the placebo arm died, which is by no means negligible.

In both health terms and in health economic terms, this is a real win, and it's not surprising news of the study featured on the front page of newspapers around the world.

https://www.merck.com/news/merck-and-ridgebacks-investigational-oral-antiviral-molnupiravir-reduced-the-risk-of-hospitalization-or-death-by-approximately-50-percent-compared-to-placebo-for-patients-with-mild-or-moderat/