We Made One Gram Of Remdesivir

Re:We Made One Gram Of Remdesivir by rocqua on Sunday April 05, 2020 @04:17AM (#22784446)

Doesn't that mean that Remdesivir would essentially defeat _all_ RNA viruses? Or is the effectiveness dependent on the exact RNA cloning mechanism used by the virus?

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Re:We Made One Gram Of Remdesivir by rwmj on Sunday April 05, 2020 @05:24AM (#22784673)

Yes, it was originally invented to treat ebola, but it's thought to have general antiviral properties against RNA viruses.

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Re:We Made One Gram Of Remdesivir by lisk1 on Sunday April 05, 2020 @05:44AM (#22784746)

There are a lot more RNA virus specifically targeting antivirals surprised that most of them are not yet tested.

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Re:We Made One Gram Of Remdesivir by malwarebytess on Sunday April 05, 2020 @06:07AM (#22784835)

sounds like we should get on it

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Re:We Made One Gram Of Remdesivir by rwmj on Sunday April 05, 2020 @11:56AM (#22786294)

According to this radio programme[1] I was listening to at the weekend, scientists have been warning about the potential of coronaviruses to cause a pandemic for a long time, and saying we should work on general antivirals for them. Obviously that didn't happen.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000gvd1

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Re:We Made One Gram Of Remdesivir by koheripbal on Sunday April 05, 2020 @04:49PM (#22788599)

Didn't it? The one we're talking about was developed to fight the last two Coronaviruses.

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Re:We Made One Gram Of Remdesivir by vikramkr on Sunday April 05, 2020 @03:15PM (#22787755)

Yep. This is the same drug they tried to deploy against Ebola, and that's why they think itll be useful for such a wildly different drug virus here as well

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