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Of course, it'll earn Merck a pretty packet. The US Govt has already bought courses at US$700 a pop. But the Federal Govt would no doubt put it on the PBS scheme which would reduce its cost to patients and providing it free would be cost-effective when you look at the cost of hospitalising someone for a month or so.

The government should make it free, it's an order of magnitude cheaper than a hospital visit, if they make it too expensive or even moderately expensive there will be very vulnerable people who delay and then need to be hospitalised destroying the benefit and the savings.

Like the intravenous treatments, it's most effective administered early, so ideally you do not want people waiting until they are sick. If someone is positive have it ready to administer. There is talk of allowing doctors clinics to administer the intravenous treatments or even have RNs doing it in homes.

Merck might have won the race to be first, but GSK and others won't stop, the prize is too high, and the variants will keep coming.

I've also read recently an auto-injector version being tested, works like diabetic or Epi pens, should be easy to use.

This is very exciting, we need this to work and quickly.