IT’S CALLED MECTERIVIN! “Phenomenal”: Merck’s new COVID therapeutic may be a gamechanger. Just kidding: “Molnupiravir is a pill. And its effect isn’t so modest. . . . The pill was offered in trials exclusively to unvaccinated people who’d already begun experiencing symptoms as many as five days earlier, giving the virus a considerable head start on generating a severe infection. Even so, no one who received the drug died. And it was effective against multiple variants, including Delta. It’s Tamiflu for COVID, essentially.”