Gunzburg spoke about work on a drug that suppresses the reproduction of COVID

Analogs already exist in the world, but they are not so powerful that they can be used to treat patients with severe covid-19. At the Center. The Gamaleyas are also working on a series of medicines for such patients.

Center them. N.F. Gamalei is working on the creation of a drug that will suppress the reproduction of CORONAVIRUS in the body, said the HEAD of the scientific institution Alexander Gunzburg, RIA Novosti reports. This drug can also be used to treat patients with a severe stage of the disease.

“If by drugs you mean drugs that will purposefully suppress the reproduction of the virus, then we are also working on this problem. Those medicinal drugs that now exist - they exist, by the way, but they do not suppress the reproduction of the virus so well that they can be used to treat patients in serious condition, ”he explained, adding that over such a series of drugs in the center also work.

At the same time, he stressed that he could not promise a result “within a few months”, since it takes more time to create such a drug.

Gunzburg called the timing of trials of anti-COVID drugs based on antibodies Society

In early November, the British authorities approved the use of the drug molnupiravir, which prevents the reproduction of the virus in the human body by violating the genetic code of the virus. The drug is available in the form of tablets and can be administered on an outpatient basis. Clinical trials have shown that the use of molnupiravir reduces the risk of hospitalization and death with COVID-19 by about half.

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