Parasite killer found to knock out Covid virus

Pathogen stripped of growth genes

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8186287/Monash-University-scientists-anti-parasite-Ivermectin-kill-COVID-19-cells-two-days.html

"We found that even a single dose could essentially remove all viral RNA (effectively removed all genetic material of the virus) by 48 hours and that even at 24 hours there was a really significant reduction in it," Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute's Dr Kylie Wagstaff said on Friday.

Ivermectin is widely used in animals and humans to kill parasites, such as worms and mites. It also kills lice.

The drug has been used successfully against HIV and Zika.