{"id":104749,"date":"2020-04-04T08:42:18","date_gmt":"2020-04-04T15:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/anti-parasitic-drug-kills-coronavirus-cell-cultures-in-48-hours"},"modified":"2020-04-04T08:42:18","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T15:42:18","slug":"anti-parasitic-drug-kills-coronavirus-cell-cultures-in-48-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/anti-parasitic-drug-kills-coronavirus-cell-cultures-in-48-hours","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Parasitic Drug Kills Coronavirus Cell Cultures in 48 Hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/anti-parasitic-drug-kills-coronavirus-cell-cultures-in-48-hours.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the virologist who was part of the team who were first to isolate and share SARS-COV2 outside of China in January 2020, I am excited about the prospect of Ivermectin being used as a potential drug against COVID-19,\u201d Leon Caly, senior medical scientist at the Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory (VIDRL) at the Doherty Institute, said.<\/p>\n<p>A vaccine for COVID-19 is likely still <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/04\/01\/white-house-advisor-fauci-says-coronavirus-vaccine-trial-is-on-target-and-will-be-ultimate-game-changer.html\">at least a year<\/a> out, despite research teams across the world <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/neoscope\/interview-experimental-coronavirus-vaccine\">fast tracking work on potential vaccines<\/a>. But that doesn\u2019t mean we\u2019re doomed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn times when we\u2019re having a global pandemic and there isn\u2019t an approved treatment, if we had a compound that was already available around the world then that might help people sooner,\u201d Wagstaff said in the statement. \u201cRealistically it\u2019s going to be a while before a vaccine is broadly available.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAs the virologist who was part of the team who were first to isolate and share SARS-COV2 outside of China in January 2020, I am excited about the prospect of Ivermectin being used as a potential drug against COVID-19,\u201d Leon Caly, senior medical scientist at the Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory (VIDRL) at the Doherty [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}