COVID19 SCIENCE: Anti-inflammatory drugs may help keep virus in check
The following is a brief roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus.Researchers in Spain using computer techniques have analyzed 6,466 approved drugs and identified seven that might inhibit the main enzyme that helps the coronavirus to replicate, referred to as M-pro.
The researchers say the molecular structures of these drugs could be used as starting points for developing derivatives with more potent effects against the coronavirus.As businesses and cities reopen, screening people for fever when they arrive in the morning at work or school is likely to be widely used to help prevent coronavirus spread.
"The results suggest that morning temperature measurements could miss many febrile disease cases," they said.People with chronic kidney disease should take extra precautions to stay safe from the novel coronavirus, new data from New York City suggest. Doctors analyzed medical records on nearly 3,400 patients who had tested positive for the coronavirus, including 210 with chronic kidney disease.
Unfortunately, they did not have enough information to tell whether the risks increased as the stage of patients' kidney disease worsened.Doctors are seeing dramatically increased rates of blood-clot-related complications in patients infected with the novel coronavirus. It appears that the virus injures the lining of blood vessels - the endothelium - leading blood to clot as it flows past the damage.
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