Update: Anderson Cooper had Dr. Timothy Schacker, from the University of Minnesota Medical School on Friday (3/20/20), see http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2003/20/acd.02.html
They're looking at just this mechanism using blood-pressure medication "Losartan". I'm not seeing any other studies in this area currently. -Doug Elrod ([email protected]) On Friday, March 20, 2020, 3:44:04 PM EDT, 'Doug Elrod' via World News Now Discussion List <[email protected]> wrote: New York (alas), too. -Doug Elrod ([email protected]) P.S. WNN reported today on the potential use of a malaria drug, chloroquine, against Covid-19. I wonder how far the research is along the line of targeting the receptor that it uses to invade cells. It might be useful for severe cases in the period before a vaccine is available. I don't think I've seen a news report about this area yet. Here's a (relatively) readable scientific paper about it: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00134-020-05985-9 Disclaimer: I'm not an MD. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "World News Now Discussion List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/wnndl/347099550.201545.1584910165993%40mail.yahoo.com.
