The COVID-19 pandemic

[tomh009]

Sounds like a bunch of work still to be done but a widely available drug, Invermectin, may be a possible treatment.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/ar...4220302011

Unfortunately it's only in vivo. Apparently lots of medications are effective in a petri dish, but throw in the complexities of a human body, and the need for the dose to not be toxic to the human, and 95+% don't work for real. It's certainly still worth investigating further, but it's not a huge breakthrough.

Avigan (favilavir) has also shown promise in trials, and is already approved in some countries as an antiviral flu medication.

But none of these are likely to be available for general use anytime in the next few months. Much work remains -- although we'll probably see progress here well before a vaccine becomes available.