Research led by Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Israel-US team find drug that can stop Covid-19 in its tracks

Title:
Israel-US team find drug that can stop Covid-19 in its tracks

Published:
Israel21c, 14 July 2020
https://www.israel21c.org/downgrading-covid-19s-threat-to-that-of-the-common-cold/?mc_cid=df419e0081&mc_eid=28489aa4bd

From the article:
Could a well-known cholesterol-lowering drug help treat Covid-19? A research team led by Hebrew University of Jerusalem Prof. Yaakov Nahmias says that early research looks promising.

Research at Israel’s Hebrew University of Jerusalem & New York’s Mount Sinai Medical Center - Drug could eradicate COVID-19 from lungs in days

Title:
Hebrew U. scientist: Drug could eradicate COVID-19 from lungs in days

Author:
Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman

Published:
The Jerusalem Post, 15 July 2020
https://www.jpost.com/health-science/hebrew-u-scientist-drug-could-eradicate-covid-19-from-lungs-in-days-635028

From the article:
Researchers at Israel’s Hebrew University of Jerusalem and New York’s Mount Sinai Medical Center believe they could potentially downgrade COVID-19’s severity into nothing worse than a common cold.

New research by Hebrew University Prof. Ya’acov Nahmias and Sinai’s Dr. Benjamin tenOever revealed that the FDA-approved drug Fenofibrate (Tricor) could reduce SARS-CoV-2’s ability to reproduce or even make it disappear.