Oh for the love of petri dishes
Paper is here and it's very, uhhhh, preclinical. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2021/01/22/science.abf4058
Plitidepsin has potent preclinical efficacy against SARS-CoV-2 by targeting the host protein eEF1A

SARS-CoV-2 viral proteins interact with the eukaryotic translation machinery and inhibitors of translation have potent antiviral effects. Here we report that the drug plitidepsin (aplidin), which has...

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2021/01/22/science.abf4058
With the caveat that I'm very dumb, nearly always wrong, and only capable of communicating with emojis, it looks like the clinical evidence may be overstated. Here are the links they provide to the studies they cite, result-free as of today.
With the caveat that I'm very dumb, nearly always wrong, and only capable of communicating with emojis, it looks like the clinical evidence may be overstated. Here are the links they provide to the studies they cite, result-free as of today.
With the caveat that I'm very dumb, nearly always wrong, and only capable of communicating with emojis, it looks like the clinical evidence may be overstated. Here are the links they provide to the studies they cite, result-free as of today.
With the caveat that I'm very dumb, nearly always wrong, and only capable of communicating with emojis, it looks like the clinical evidence may be overstated. Here are the links they provide to the studies they cite, result-free as of today.
Also regarding "27.5 as effective as Remdesivir"

27.5 times zero is still zero.
Ultimately i think this is good basic science, done properly and honestly as far as I can tell. The issue here is in folks getting waaaaay ahead of the evidence and treating this as an answer rather than a question.

As ever.

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