Breakthrough drug might cure COVID-19 in just five days

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28. Wonderful news! Thank you for posting! The treatment aspect of Covid is something Rachel

Maddow keeps in the foreground, obviously because of her experience with Susan getting Covid.

Here's part of the transcript of her interview with Dr. Fauci on January 4, 2021:

But the real goal, Rachel, is to do what we did so successfully with HIV. To get direct, acting antiviral drugs so that when someone comes in with symptoms to prevent them from going in the hospital, you might give them a seven to ten-day course. Unlike HIV, which requires a lifetime of course, but the same type of drug, one that`s a very powerful drug, directly acting on the virus itself.

That`s something that we`re putting a lot of effort in, and when we get that, that will really turn around the entire situation of our ability to prevent someone from progressing and going into a state where they really have advanced disease.

MADDOW: And that`s the sort of theory of the case for the best shot for therapeutics. But is there anything that looks promising along those lines already? Or is this something that`s years away in terms of development?

FAUCI: No. Well, you know, normally under business as usual-type things, it might have been years away. But there are a number of companies that have candidates that they`re looking at, that might look pretty, you know, the companies are a little shy telling you about things, but being at the NIH where we fund scientists who are doing this, I think it`s going to be much sooner than we think.

That once you get something that looks like it`s a hit, as we call it, namely, something that really does act. You get it into a phase one trial quickly and because the situation is so dire in the sense of the need for therapeutics, you move it along. You don`t just want to forget about safety. Safety is always important. But if you can show it`s safe, has good antiviral activity, we can move relatively quickly on that.

And as I mentioned, there are a couple of candidates that are looking promising in the test tube, and then from there you go to an animal model and then get it into humans.

I bet she will have Dr. Fauci back on to discuss this latest development.