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Israel-US team find drug that can stop Covid-19 in its tracks
Researchers show coronavirus causes lungs to accumulate fat, so cholesterol-lowering drug may help downgrade virus threat to that of common cold.

By ISRAEL21c Staff JULY 14, 2020, 7:00 PM

Could a well-known cholesterol-lowering drug help treat Covid-19? A research team led by Hebrew University of Jerusalem Prof. Yaakov Nahmias says that early research looks promising.

Over the last three-months, Nahmias and Dr. Benjamin tenOever at New York’s Mount Sinai Medical Center have focused on the ways in which the SARS-CoV-2 (the coronavirus that’s causing our current pandemic) changes patients’ lungs in order to reproduce itself.

https://www.israel21c.org/downgrading-covid-19s-threat-to-that-of-the-common-cold/

Interesting.