Drug for ebola seems helpful for C19

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-04-virology-lab-drug-meant-ebola.html

This is great news. Even if it has problems it is one more method that can be tweeked to work well given time. (Which we don't have).

It's called Remdesivir

@sonhouse said
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-04-virology-lab-drug-meant-ebola.html

This is great news. Even if it has problems it is one more method that can be tweeked to work well given time. (Which we don't have).

It's called Remdesivir

The drug was against MERS not ebola. Aside from that it's a useful step. Interestingly I saw somewhere that the drug hydroxychloroquine could have a use, not as a cure, but to block cytokine storm. The various drug candidates, including remdesvir are listed on this Wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_drug_development

@deepthought said
The drug was against MERS not ebola.

Seems that it was developed as a treatment for Ebola, as Sonhouse
said, then subsequently used against SARS and MERS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remdesivir

@wolfgang59 said
Seems that it was developed as a treatment for Ebola, as Sonhouse
said, then subsequently used against SARS and MERS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remdesivir

I was going by what it said in the article he posted.

Selenium is just as helpful.

https://www.surrey.ac.uk/news/link-identified-between-dietary-selenium-and-outcome-covid-19-disease?fbclid=IwAR25cw4pj1adB258JBZLLcSh8hIOTTocVESLSjICPudHrJkXk4fCCQPRmJI

@Metal-Brain
That might help if you were deficient in selenium but if something like that became a meme and millions of folks started munching down selenium pills it would make things worse because selenium is a MICRO nutrient, you need MICRO grams not grams and there would be bad side effects of too much so most folks don't have a selenium deficiency. I would think C and D would be at least as important in boosting the immune system anyway.
The next thing they learned about C19 is it starts a cascade of hyper immune responses and it is our own immune systems that causes the most damages so now they are exploring immunosuppressives like prednisone and the like to dampen down the system at the right time to make the disease as mild as possible.