What Are the Treatments for Covid and How Good Are They?

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In the battle against Covid-19, researchers have been able to move faster and go further with vaccines that prevent the disease than therapies to treat the sick. The search for reliable drugs has followed a checkered path with some therapies losing favor after being authorized for emergency use. Nearly two years after the first cases of Covid were reported in China, two pills have emerged that even skeptical scientists are hailing as a potential turning point in the pandemic. The medicines are intended for patients who are early on in their illness, not yet in the hospital, but at risk of developing severe disease. More research is needed to provide better therapy for severely ill patients.