If only we could just get into the habit of using an antiviral...

If only we could just get into the habit of using an antiviral nasal spray each morning like cleaning teeth, applying sunscreen, applying insect spray. It’s not hard to do. Except TGA REFUSES to give marketing approval to efficacious antiviral nasal sprays
The world would be a better place as community transmission would be tackled by antiviral nasal sprays unlike there being no transmission with dental issues, skin cancer or mozzie bites.
All of those preps and antiviral nasal sprays are less dangerous than the drugs Paxlovid and Lagevrio which have been given such a promo boost by regulators worldwide.
I’ve been looking at Paxlovid approvals and it’s hardly what Covid patients think their doctors are prescribing it.
THE EVIDENCE re Paxlovid is about preventing hospitalisation. Not cure, not minimising symptoms
EPIC-HR - the published study was for over 70s and immunocompromised unvaxed - 89% keeping them out of hospital
Standard risk including younger vaxed was EPIC-SR and Failed v placebo!! 51% efficacy - so Pfizer abandoned that trial.
Both FDA and TGA then used the RWE REAL WORLD EVIDENCE.
From thousands of electronic records they picked out over 50 yr olds and compared those on Paxlovid and not. No controls about masking clean air number of vaccinations and boosting. The result of 44% re hospitalisation with no statistical proof was enough to allow Pfizer to market for profit
and there was nothing about treating curing …
Antiviral nasal sprays get better results and the world popn has been conned by regulators leaning over backwards for Pfizer and Merck