Fauci Calls Merck's Experimental COVID-19 Pill 'Really Quite Impressive'
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The White House chief medical adviser stressed, however, that such a pill should in no way replace getting vaccinated against the virus.
Dr. Anthony Fauci praised an experimental antiviral pill that its manufacturer said can reduce COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths by 50% in people recently infected with the coronavirus.
The White House chief medical adviser said on Sunday that the preliminary study results released over the weekend for drugmaker Merck’s COVID-19 pill are “really quite impressive.”
“You have now a small molecule, a drug that can be given orally. And the results of the trial that were just announced yesterday and the day before are really quite impressive. I mean, if you do a statistical significant analysis on it, it’s very, very significant, cutting the deaths and hospitalization by 50%,” Fauci told Jonathan Karl on ABC’s “This Week.”