2 drugs for Gaucher’s disease also fight COVID-19, Israeli defense lab finds

Defense Ministry-run Institute for Biological Research identifies medications treating the genetic disorder that can be used against viruses; one already has FDA approval. The study on mice found that the medications inhibited the replication of the viruses in the bodies of the infected animals.In addition to being effective against the coronavirus, the treatment was also found to work against three other viruses, Neuroinvasive Sindbis virus, West Nile virus and Influenza A virus, the researchers wrote. The Times of Israel