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Pfizer is developing two drugs which are different from Ivermectin. They are from a class of drugs known as protease inhibitors which interfere with the replication of the virus by inhibiting protease enzymes. Drugs with similar activity are used to treat HIV and HepC.

IVM likely works by inhibiting binding of sars-cov2 to the ACE binding site on the surface of the cell.

New drug discovery is a very expensive process. Drug development is a crapshoot. Only about 15 percent of drugs that enter clinical trials make it to market. Like it or not only pharma, and a few universities have pockets deep enough to support such work.





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