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These drugs don’t target the coronavirus—they target us

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Researchers will start to treat COVID-19 patients at Aarhus University Hospital with a drug named camostat mesylate that targets a human protein.

By Kai KupferschmidtScience’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center.In another example of the blinding speed at which science is moving during the pandemic era, researchers at Aarhus University will start a clinical trial of a drug named camostat mesylate tomorrow—barely 1 month after a Cell paper showed the compound can prevent the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, from entering human cells. “If we are to have an impact on the rising epidemic, then we have to act right now,” says Ole Søgaard, the infectious disease physician leading the study.One reason the Danish researchers can

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