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manyblinkinglights:

poipoipoi-2016:

kontextmaschine:

Huh. Hearing that the “antivirals” they give the immunosuppressed re:Covid work by inducing genetic mutation, and while this usually results in non-viable virus code (that’s the mechanism, after all) some fraction is highly mutated but still viable, some fraction of that fraction is in fact more viable than the parent strain, and applied across a whole-humanity disease that already has such a high “R” of new infections seeded per established case the effect is to accelerate its evolution

IIRC, this was the one that started with M and not Paxlovid.

Also yes, that was noticed at the time along with drastically reduced efficacy over Paxlovid and while that’s been its own thing (Kill a puppy to a get a 10/15-dose course IMO. 5 isn’t long enough), I’d take the Paxlovid thing over the mutation thing.

Yeah, molnupiravir or something (sic, I\u2019m not looking it up). My med twitter mutual was bitching up a storm about it today. It doesn\u2019t do anything but up your cancer risk and hypermutate the coronavirus, etc.

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Yeah, that’s it. Okay, this was re: a drug in testing, worrier Twitter combines apocalypticism with grounded biomedical understanding in a way that’s hard to tease apart sometimes.

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