Johns Hopkins School of Public Health Dr. Amesh Adalja expresses his optimism for Merck's new coronavirus treatment on 'Fox News Live.'
Even Dr. Anthony Fauci gave his public seal of approval on CNN’s"State of the Union," calling the results"quite impressive," but Adalja pressed that the treatment is still not an alternative to the vaccine.
"Prevention is always better than treatment," he said."It’s great that we’ve got treatments now but prevention is always going to be the priority, especially with safe and effective vaccines like we have in this country." Adalja said that Pfizer also has a COVID-19 treatment drug on the way which will hopefully begin to build an antiviral"portfolio" in medicine."This is part of making COVID something that we can treat like other respiratory infections, day in and day out," he said."We’re looking to a better future with a much more manageable COVID-19."
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