Could oral antiviral pills be a game-changer for COVID-19? An infectious disease physician explains why these options are badly needed
- Written by Patrick Jackson, Assistant Professor of Infectious Diseases, University of Virginia
If authorized, molnupiravir could be a key oral treatment to help keep COVID-19 patients out of the hospital. Plyushkin/iStock via Getty Images PlusNearly two years into the pandemic, it has become starkly clear that we need better treatments for COVID-19 for people in the earlier stages of disease.
Two new antiviral drugs could soon be the first...