COVID-19 Prevention Pill Could Be Game-changer, Howard County Researcher Says

HOWARD COUNTY, MD — One medical researcher believes a prevention pill called molnupiravir could be the answer to the COVID-19 pandemic.

“It could become the Tamiflu for flu where you give people something when you think you get exposed, so you don’t get it,” Dr. Steven Geller, the chief of research for the Centennial Medical Group in Howard County, told WMAR.

The pill could be administered to unvaccinated people living with someone who tests positive for COVID-19, Geller explained.

“What they’re trying to prove in this study is that by giving molnupiravir to family members of patients who have COVID, we can prevent those family members from getting COVID or having to go to the hospital,” Geller said.

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