[snopercod]

Are Cold-EZE and Zicam of any value in reducing SARS to plain old ARS?

[CathyRyan]

Officials said USAMRIID scientists are testing about 2,000 drugs on the coronavirus that causes the flu-like respiratory disease. The virus is new to science with no known cure or vaccine

"We've got tons of drugs under test," said Dr. Peter B. Jahrling, senior research scientist with USAMRIID, adding that it is "too soon for results."

Jahrling said his organization received the virus from the CDC during the last week of March and that it "took a while to get the virus up and replicating."

Scientists first tested Ribaviron, a leading antiviral drug, on the virus, but quickly determined that it did not work.

Researchers at Detrick are testing about 150 to 200 drugs per week on the virus that causes SARS,………….

A USAMRIID press release said the organization will be "freely shared with CDC and other government agencies."

But for now, progress is slow.

"We don't have any hints yet," Jahrling said.

http://www.gazette.net/200316/frederick/news/154297-1.html

[Domestic Church]

I asked one of the medical Docs on FR if they were good for coronavirus and he said their trial runs were so bad, a complete joke, that they dropped the idea of selling them as prescriptive pharmaceuticals...so the over the counter approach is reflective of P.T. Barnum's perspective.

Some say it does work... who knows if you or I are in the small percentage of the trial run that had a positive result.