She had Merck backing her and now the pill is approved and ignored. It has toxicity issues and is only 30% effective at keeping people out of the hospital. The COVID pill from Pfizer is far more effective so why would anybody ever prescribe the Merck pill?
The good news is that any pill targeting beta coronaviruses and PL pro belongs to us. Hopefully the University of Arizona will help us get a pill to market soon under compassionate use guidelines. Since these pills work for more than just COVID, it could be another virus that gets targeted by Sunshine's antiviral pill.
Wow Joe, this ended up being a very good question. Here is another comment to ponder.
We now know that somebody working with Sunshine on the antiviral for COVID successfully got another pill FasTraked for compassionate use. He's done it before, and he can do it again.