A local group here at UCSF has identified and tested what appears to an especially promising candidate for COVID which is 30 times more potent than remdesivir, the drug that seemed to be so effective in a number of high profile cases last year.
It is an anti-cancer drug that kills the coronavirus but is not yet approved for this use. The new peer-reviewed research, published in the journal Science, highlights the drug called Aplidin, which was originally extracted from a marine creature called Aplidium albicans — a rare type of “sea squirt”… The drug is patented and in use already for some cancers - and it will not be cheaply available or widespread in the USA unless well placed scientists like Fauci takes notice.
