If you wan to grief Merck astroturfers, remind them that their new antiviral is a literal horse tablet.

Molnupiravir is EIDD-2801. Also:

EIDD-2801’s story starts years before the coronavirus crisis. In 2014, Painter and his colleagues at Emory University began a project funded by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency to find an antiviral compound that could fight Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus (VEEV).