New COVID-19 therapy could be '30 times more potent than Remdesivir'

New COVID-19 therapy could be '30 times more potent than Remdesivir'
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File photo of the drug Remdesivir, an antiviral medication that has been used to treat patients with COVID-19.Ulrich Perrey/afp/TNS
A UCSF-led science team may have found another breakthrough drug treatment to fight COVID-19, as first reported by the San Francisco Chronicle. Studies have shown that small concentrations of Aplidin, a drug created using an extraction from a marine creature called Aplidium albicans, killed the virus in both infected human lung cells and analogous cells from monkeys.
The study, which has been published in the journal Science, shows that the “sea squirt” found off the coast of Ibiza could be "almost 30 times more potent than Remdesivir," the Chronicle reported. While not yet approved to treat patients with COVID-19, if proven effective this treatment would be a welcome addition to the still small amount of antiviral drugs available to treat the disease.

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