Medicines designed to treat COVID-19 won't be available for months, so doctors are looking to drugs already approved for treating other diseases.
angiotensinScientists hypothesized that losartan might help patients with COVID-19 because, as an angiotensin receptor blocker, it obstructs the site through which the virus gets into the cells, Tolar said.
Satchell’s center is taking this route, studying the virus’ proteins and other structures in depth and designing drugs to combat it. Currently, they’re targeting the molecular factories that viruses set up to manufacture more copies of themselves. Luckily, scientists can also draw on research into other coronaviruses, such as those that caused the SARS outbreak in 2003 and the MERS outbreak in 2012. Those events came and went so quickly that promising research was largely dropped before drugs could be developed and made available.
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