Health
Cheap Aussie spray ‘could stop COVID’ – Daily Examiner
A commonly used blood thinning treatment could stop coronavirus and its deadly mutant strains, new research reveals.
Exclusive: Australian researchers have turned a cheap 100 year blood thinning drug into a nasal spray that could block COVID-19, stop it spreading and treat the illness.
The team of Melbourne scientists, which includes Victoria’s chief health officer Brett Sutton, is seeking funding to test the product, containing the blood thinning medication heparin, on people in hotel quarantine – to see if it works.
It comes as human trials begin to gauge whether AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 injection also works as…
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