International team of scientists identifies new treatment for COVID-19 that appears to be far more e

[libertybele]

So...as the articles states that they aren't sure if the vaccines will stop the transmission of COVID, I wonder if the vaccines actually keep people from getting COVID??  I am really doubtful.  What seems to be happening is that the vaccine is causing people to come down with COVID and creating immunity-- but for how long?

International team of scientists identifies new treatment for COVID-19 that appears to be far more effective than drugs in use now

From a rare marine sea squirt found only in the waters around the Spanish island of Ibiza comes a potential COVID-19 treatment called Aplidin that researchers say has proven 27.5 times more effective than the well-known remdesivir in human cells in the lab.

The finding, reported Monday by an international team in the journal Science, comes at a time when potential treatments have been overshadowed by the U.S. vaccination campaign, now trying to recover from a slower-than-expected start.

A related preprint that has yet to be peer-reviewed says that tests have shown the drug is equally effective against the highly infectious new variant of the virus discovered recently in the United Kingdom. ...........

.............Early on, the group homed in on 332 proteins found in human lung cells and also in blood vessel cells that help the virus when it invades the body. Using cutting edge technology, they investigated how the virus was affected when they eliminated each protein one by one, and then when they lowered the levels of each protein.

Krogan has said that he hopes knowledge of these interactions will help researchers find treatments that address the new coronavirus but also the next one that appears.

Research on potential COVID-19 treatments is important, not only because it will take months to vaccinate the majority of Americans, but also because it's unclear whether the vaccines in use can prevent transmission of the virus.

"Work on treatments has been ongoing since the outbreak began and we have seen the benefits," said Chris Beyrer, professor of public health and human rights at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. "Survival is actually better than it was in March, April, May.".........................

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/2021/01/25/international-team-finds-new-more-effective-drug-treat-covid-19/6673529002/

[PeteS in CA]

It's not a great comparison between remdesivir and Aplidin, simply because remdesivir is fully approved, basically in the long-term (years) Phase IV test stage, while Aplidin is in Phase II, testing with with several hundred participants (sometimes up to 1000). That it had been approved for a different disease is the reason it could skip formal pre-human and Phase I testing.

With that caveat, better is better, and if Aplidin proves better after full testing then approve it and get it into use.