Ayala Pharmaceuticals Inc (ADXS)

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Explain it like I'm 5...please?
Ok, I'm not a finance guy, medical is my field.
So can someone explain to me how this short attack, if that's what it is, is enabling shorts to cover?
If shorts cover, wouldn't the sp go UP? It's totally counter-intuitive to me to think that shorts are covering right now.
I get the idea that perhaps they are establishing a "base" from which to recover, if that's so then the "covering" hasn't started yet, has it? I mean, really, we're not talking about a few hundred thousand shares, we're talking 10 million shares. Is it theoretically possible to cover this many shares, this large percentage of all shares, without raising the share price?