- Doctors in New York are looking at a drug that usually treats heartburn for COVID-19 therapy.
- The novel coronavirus might respond to famotidine, an affordable medicine for heartburn.
- A computer model also identified famotidine as a potential medicine that could stop viral replication.
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The novel coronavirus has been quite a challenge for doctors looking to find therapies that could stop the virus from replicating and thus reduce complications that can lead to death. Several drugs that have been designed and approved to treat other ailments may work in COVID-19 therapies, and some of these candidates are quite popular after having been mentioned in White House press briefings. Hydroxychloroquine and remdesivir are probably the most well-known COVID-19 drugs that are in trials right now, although not all results are promising. But researchers are also trying out other drugs that may have a positive effect on COVID-19 patients, including a cheap drug that’s used to treat heartburn.
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