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Merck’s COVID antiviral may be linked to virus mutations, study finds

Por: MarketWatch Business September 25, 2023

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But the study, which was conducted by a team of mostly U.K.-based academics, found that in some patients, molnupiravir did not succeed in killing the virus but instead allowed the mutated virus to spread. “Using a systematic approach, we find that a specific class of long phylogenetic branches, distinguished by a high proportion of G-to-A and C-to-T mutations, appear almost exclusively in sequences from 2022, after the introduction of... + full article



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