5/21/20 - smart, useful, science stuff about COVID-19
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VACCINE AND TREATMENT: 1) A feature story by Lila Thulin for Smithsonian explores the challenges of developing antiviral drugs for families of viruses (e.g. all bat coronaviruses, all influenza viruses, all Ebola viruses, or all severe acute respiratory syndrome — SARS — viruses) and specifically for SARS-CoV-2. Thulin also covers what is known so far about two anti-viral treatment options — remdesivir and another called EIDD-2801 — that show potential for defending cells from SARS-CoV-2. She also writes that an antiviral drug that stops the virus is not all that is needed to treat patients with COVID-19. Doctors also need treatments for the array of symptoms that accompany the disease (5/13/20):
5/21/20 - smart, useful, science stuff about COVID-19
5/21/20 - smart, useful, science stuff about…
5/21/20 - smart, useful, science stuff about COVID-19
VACCINE AND TREATMENT: 1) A feature story by Lila Thulin for Smithsonian explores the challenges of developing antiviral drugs for families of viruses (e.g. all bat coronaviruses, all influenza viruses, all Ebola viruses, or all severe acute respiratory syndrome — SARS — viruses) and specifically for SARS-CoV-2. Thulin also covers what is known so far about two anti-viral treatment options — remdesivir and another called EIDD-2801 — that show potential for defending cells from SARS-CoV-2. She also writes that an antiviral drug that stops the virus is not all that is needed to treat patients with COVID-19. Doctors also need treatments for the array of symptoms that accompany the disease (5/13/20):