A human monoclonal 1 antibody blocking SARS-CoV-2 infection

Re:A human monoclonal 1 antibody blocking SARS-CoV-2 infection by roenxi on Saturday March 14, 2020 @07:40AM (#22574582)

It isn't a choice of aye or nay to one drug; there are a suite of drugs that either should or probably do help with COVID-19. If they are going to pick something randomly, chloroquine is probably a better choice based on Chinese trials.

The speed with which things that help against this coronavirus are being found really is impressive. It is good to be facing this in the modern era instead of 50 years ago.

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Re:A human monoclonal 1 antibody blocking SARS-CoV-2 infection by forkexec on Saturday March 14, 2020 @12:37PM (#22576559)

If going experimental, Camostat and E-64d are better choices to blockade ACE2 and TMPRSS2. Chloroquine has much more serious potential side-effects including irreversible, rapid macular degeneration where someone might reasonably prefer not to continue living because of them.

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Re:A human monoclonal 1 antibody blocking SARS-CoV-2 infection by beagle3 on Saturday March 14, 2020 @08:18AM (#22574717)

Well, they faced something comparable 102 years ago ... The world didn't end, though it did suffer greatly.

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