{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffindmyvaccine.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fdrbrian-conway-SW_IPTcG","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"An At Home Pill to Fight the COVID Pandemic? A Look at Molnupiravir with Dr.Brian Conway ","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/017450d4-6458-4a10-9297-ca289770dc2d/12efc1b5-e699-4345-87bb-83bd4d9ad968/copy-of-copy-of-copy-of-copy-of-copy-of-copy-of-copy-of-copy-of-copy-of-copy-of-copy-of-copy-of-copy-of-copy-of-copy-of-copy-of-aqua-and-yellow-girl-photo-music-youtube-channel-art-instagram-post-2560-x-1440-px.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"","height":200,"description":"There'ss been a lot of chatter and nervous excitement lately about two new oral antiviral pills, Molnupiravir and Paxlovid, to combat COVID-19 and help keep people out of the hospital. This is the first time we are seeing new COVID treatments that basically are meant to be taken at home. \nis case. Who g\nTiming maybe everything in thets access to the antivirals and how, when they have to literally be given within a few days from COVID symptom onset for them to actually work? Does this mark a turning point in the pandemic?\n\nWe take a deep-dive exploring the first antiviral out of the gate made by Merck, Molnupiravir* (trust us it took a while before we got how to pronounce it right), with Dr.Brian Conway, an infectious disease specialist and Medical Director of the Vancouver Infectious Diseases Centre. Dr.Conway translates the trial data for us and shares what the oral pills mean for this stage of the pandemic, the emergence of Omicron, and where the pill stand as a public health tool.\n\n*Molnupiravir is named after Thor’s hammer, Mjölnir. Pretty cool.\n"}