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Rather stunning news today from UK: A company growing interferon beta has done a private study with placebo arm that showed their "drug" gave proven Covid-19 patients a 79% improvement in terms of needing ventilator or death. It's an inhaled mist dose that costs about $20 EU per day. Treatment is typically six days, and it works in patients at all phases of the disease.
I quote "drug" because it's actually cultured in a bacteria or yeast vat with the human interferon beta gene transplanted. That's why it's so cheap. Therapeutics are really getting good. By the time we have vaccines, we may not need them much.
This interferon actually works in a similar manner to ivermectin. SARS-COV2 sends some protein into the host cell nucleus to shut off the cell's manufacture of interferon. That makes the cell and surrounding cells more able to be infected, because interferon does a bunch of good stuff for defending against viruses. Ivermectin prevents the bad protein from entering the nucleus.
The interferon treatment supplies the interferon the cell would have manufactured normally.
Very fascinating.
This past weekend on NPR, one of the Saturday shows' hosts' wondered how did we get here from there with the Covid-19 virus.
One the doctor/scientists interviewed likened the virus to a predator movie. The Covid-19 virus is dead, non-living. It has proteins on its outer shell that attaches itself to host cells. Once the Covid is able to attach itself, it "wakes-up" the Covid virus and becomes a living organism able to take over the infected cell's genetic material and infect and duplicate.
