Oral antiviral COVID-19 treatments arrive in Tennessee

Oral antiviral COVID-19 treatments arrive in Tennessee

December 30, 2021 | A new tool to fight COVID-19 has arrived in Tennessee as the Omicron variant surges. “They’re drugs that are designed to actually stop the infection inside a cell,” said Dr. Mark Denison, an infectious disease expert at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. “Vaccines and antibodies stop the infections, the virus before it gets in a cell”.