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The next phase of COVID-19 in Ontario

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Oral Antiviral Treatments Are Coming Down the Pipe

We also know that there are new treatments for people who get coved to to hopefully prevent hospital stays or deaths. One of the biggest things we are using right now, my colleague, doctor zane chagla, in hamilton, has been spear heading it here in Ontario. They were just, i believe, in england, the u k, the first country in the world to approve merk's anti viral pill. It's a drug called monu pirver and it is the first oral anti viral treatment of the first pill for the illness to get the green light anywhere.

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