within five days of first showing symptoms, the results were even stronger among people who got the drug faster. if you can get the drug within three days of showing symptoms, well, there was just under 400 people in that group who got the drug a little bit earlier and the placebo group, the ones who didn t get the drug, sadly, 27 of those ended up in the hospital, seven died. for the people who got the drug, only three people ended up in the hospital and none of them died. these are phenomenally good results, if you are older than 65 or if you have any of the gazillionth comorbidities that make you higher risk for serious illness if you get covid, of these clinical trials bear out, it looks like we re about to have a drug that will make it 89% less likely that you will end up in the hospital or dead. if you get infected with covid and you can get this drug early,