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Claims that a Spanish antiviral drug can reduce the viral load of Covid-19 by 99 per cent
ÁLVARO SOTO
...refers to the amount of virus in an infected person's blood and the news was supported by the publication of an article in the journal Science. Plitidepsin works by blocking the protein eEF1A, which is found in human cells and is used by SARS-CoV-2 to ... clinical trials for the treatment of Covid-19," the company says. The Science article also states that plitidepsin is a safe antiviral in humans despite the risk of toxicity from all these drugs. "In two different animal models of SARS-CoV-2 infection,