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Doctors might already know which drugs can kill the coronavirus - BGR

Doctors might already know which drugs can kill the coronavirus - BGR

Doctors might already know which drugs can kill the coronavirus - BGR
May 23, 2020 1 min, 16 secs

Several therapies are in trial phases, as physicians have been using various drugs to address COVID-19 symptoms and help the immune system kill the virus.

But scientists have started figuring out how the virus attempts to neutralize the immune system’s response, and think they know what drugs could actually kill the virus.

The B cells recognize the virus and create antibodies for them, which will later work in COVID-19 immunity, and the T cells remove the virus.

All of these cells would produce the interferons that would help reduce the replication, but the virus blocks the mechanism.

Without interferons, tenOever said, “there is nothing to stop the virus from replicating and festering in the lungs forever,” as his team found no interferon traces in the lung cells of COVID-19 patients.

Without interferon to work against viral replication, lung cells are killed and the respiratory function of the lung is impacted.

Researchers from Japan explained in a different non-peer-reviewed study that the coronavirus has a gene called ORF3b that shows “strong anti-interferon activity.” That way, the cells don’t recognize the presence of the virus, and the interferon gene is not triggered.

Stat says that the discovery could lead to interferon-based therapies meant to counteract the effect of the virus on interferon genes.

Menachery says that type-1 interferon “could stop the virus before it could get established.” Interferon would let the cells know that a pathogen is there and allow them to limit the spread of COVID-19.

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