from Hacker News

Pineapples could be key to treating the new coronavirus

by digital_voodoo on 8/19/20, 4:50 PM with 2 comments

• by foxyv on 8/19/20, 6:23 PM

  > The drug, BromAc – which is made with an enzyme found in pineapples -was found to dissolve the spike proteins that Covid-19 uses to infect human cells.

  So not pineapples themselves but a derivative.

  > It has been repurposed into a nasal spray that researchers hope will stop the virus' spread from the nose and throat to the lungs. A trial on patients at the Royal Melbourne Hospital could start next month.

  So not an injection or anything, just sort of a nasal barrier.

• by brian_herman__ on 8/19/20, 5:29 PM

  yummy! maybe they could make the nasal spray scented in pineapple.