Hebrew U. scientist: Drug could eradicate COVID-19 from lungs in days

[PeteS in CA]

Hebrew U. scientist: Drug could eradicate COVID-19 from lungs in days

https://www.jpost.com/health-science/hebrew-u-scientist-drug-could-eradicate-covid-19-from-lungs-in-days-635028

Researchers at Israel’s Hebrew University of Jerusalem and New York’s Mount Sinai Medical Center believe they could potentially downgrade COVID-19’s severity into nothing worse than a common cold.

New research by Hebrew University Prof. Ya’acov Nahmias and Sinai’s Dr. Benjamin tenOever revealed that the FDA-approved drug Fenofibrate (Tricor) could reduce SARS-CoV-2’s ability to reproduce or even make it disappear.
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... Nahmias and tenOever spent the last three months studying what SARS-CoV-2 is doing to human lung cells. What they found is that the novel coronavirus prevents the routine burning of carbohydrates, which results in large amounts of fat accumulating inside lung cells – a condition the virus needs to reproduce.

“By understanding how the SARS-CoV-2 controls our metabolism, we can wrestle back control from the virus and deprive it from the very resources it needs to survive,” Nahmias said, noting that it also may help explain why patients with high blood sugar and cholesterol levels are often at a particularly high risk to develop COVID-19.

... Tricor caused the cells to start burning fat, Nahmias said. The result was that the virus almost completely disappeared within only five days of treatment.

Another potential bogey-drug for Trump's peeps to beg him not to praise, .

[Smokin Joe]

I think I'd stick with the Hydroxychloroquine/Azithromycin/Zinc.

[jmyrlefuller]

I think I'd stick with the Hydroxychloroquine/Azithromycin/Zinc.

Quack, quack.

[libertybele]

I think I'd stick with the Hydroxychloroquine/Azithromycin/Zinc.

I think I'd rather just not get sick.

[jmyrlefuller]

I think I'd rather just not get sick.

Too bad. Not going to happen at this rate. If any of this worked, it would've worked by now. But NO, we continue to cancel everything and act like social distancing is sustainable when it clearly isn't.

There's no Plan B, no exit strategy, just "ruin people's lives until it works."

[libertybele]

Too bad. Not going to happen at this rate. If any of this worked, it would've worked by now. But NO, we continue to cancel everything and act like social distancing is sustainable when it clearly isn't.

There's no Plan B, no exit strategy, just "ruin people's lives until it works."

Things are not the same and I'm keeping in mind the political aspect as well and  trying not to be a constant "Negative Nancy" on this.

[Smokin Joe]

I think I'd rather just not get sick.

Well, given a choice, if I haven't already had it, I agree. Being sick is no fun, and insurance is a dim memory.