Existing drugs may hold the key to curing COVID-19
By Eva Botkin-Kowacki
News at Northeastern
Developing new drugs to treat diseases can take years or decades time that we do not have when it comes to treating patients with COVID-19. So Northeastern researchers came up with another way to discover treatments for the disease: parsing through drugs that already exist.
And, after considering all the drugs that are currently available to patients to treat myriad other ailments, they’ve now identified four strong contenders to treat COVID-19, which the
team reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Tuesday.