RE:Dr. Coombs and Covid BencrosMum wrote Just curious as to why they started their testing with zika virus and sars instead of jumping right into Covid.
I'm sure there is a reason but it seems a waste of time when the virus we're targeting is the later.
My interpretation which may be wrong is that it didn't matter all that much because of the way TLD-1433 kills a virus is basically the same so a related virus at the beginning of his research was an indication of how well TLD-1433 would perform. If I remember in the article printed it was stated unlike the usual vaccines developed they had to design them for each virus where as Dr. COMBS said he felt the vaccine he developed would combat any Coronavirus which if possible would remove an incredible amount of time & expensive on future Coronavirus outbreaks. Dr. Combs did say he had never seen a kill rate as high as TLD-1433 in his tests.