past of being like nails to a car tire to some degree. can you explain that a little bit? i like analogies. you know, when we think of things for the spike, there are i guess another analogy i might use is a truck driving up to a factory and going into to try to remake that factory and the factory is the cell. the spike is the key to the door. inside the virus assembles a new assembly line. and this drug targets that assembly line. it basically introduces damage. it s like taking a hammer or something else and hitting that assembly line so it can no longer make new cells. it just induces incredible damage in the virus. so the viruses that come out, not only are there fewer of they, the ones that come out are damaged and can t cause infection at all. you saw or heard me spell out
emory university scientist george painter began studying its power of other viruses before covid-19. i spoke earlier with dr. mark dennison from vanderbilt university, an infectious disease specialist who s collaborated with painter for years, and shares the inside story of this potential medical marvel. our goal in all of our testing was to find a drug against sars, mers, bat viruses at university of north carolina. and so we knew that it would work against any virus with significant confidence, and so when covid came around w, we tested it and demonstrated it, and were able to show rapidly that it would. in terms of how it worked, you described this in the past as nails to a car tire to some degree. can you explain that a little bit? i like analogies, you know, when we think of things for the spike, there are things that are, i guess, another analogy i