Re-Engineered Tapeworm Drug Reduces SARS-CoV-2 Replication in Rodent Model

A group of medications long prescribed to treat tapeworm has inspired a compound that shows two-pronged effectiveness against COVID-19 in laboratory studies, according to a new publication appearing online in the journal ACS Infectious Disease. The compound, part of a class of molecules called salicylanilides, was designed in the laboratory […]