IBM supercomputer identified 77 drugs that could be helpful to find a treatment for coronavirus

Researchers all around the world are trying to find a cure for the coronavirus, which now became a pandemic. And people claim that they found different kinds of solutions for this virus all around the world. But none of them could contain the virus from spreading throughout the world yet. But this news might be a Silverline for researchers who are trying hard to create a cure for this COVID-19 virus.

A huge IBM supercomputer known as ‘summit’ has identified 77 drugs that could help in this coronavirus pandemic. Those findings could provide a framework to help researchers to develop a cure for the COVID-19 virus.

This study focused on the methods that the virus uses to bind with the cells. And with the help of supercomputer researchers looked for a compound that could prevent the virus from binding with the cells.

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These researchers from the united states now say that they have a list of drugs that could bind with the virus preventing them from binding with human cells. They concluded the study saying, ” We hypothesize the identified small-molecules may be repurposed to limit viral recognition of host cells and/or disrupt host-virus interactions.”

But further testing needed on this list of compounds to determine if any of those compounds can be used to create a treatment for the coronavirus.

But up to this moment, there is no vaccine or cure for the virus. It has killed more than 16,595 people all around the world and infected 383,944 people globally.

Jeremy Smith is the co-author of this research. He said that this supercomputer helped them a lot to go through a huge collection of data in a short period of time.

Smith said that “Summit was needed to rapidly get the simulation results we needed. It took us a day or two whereas it could have taken months on a normal computer,” furthermore he said, “Our results don’t mean that we have found cure or treatment for the coronavirus, We are very hopeful, though, that our computational findings will both inform future studies and provide a framework that experimentalists will use to further investigate these compounds. Only then will we know whether any of them exhibit the characteristics needed to mitigate this virus.”

According to a study done in France, they showed that the antimalarial drug Plaquenil had strong effects on coronavirus patients. 24 patients with COVID-19 virus were treated with antimalarial Plaquenil. And 75% of the cases got better and the virus disappeared after six days after starting the treatments.

We all hope that researchers can be able to find a treatment really soon with the help of these founded results. The world desperately need a cure for this virus. Because people are suffering throughout the world in many ways due to the coronavirus outbreak.

But while researchers find a treatment for coronavirus we have our own duty for us and for the community. Stay at home. Be safe. And save others. Help each other.

How to stay safe?

CDC has recommended “social distancing” to prevent person to person spread of the coronavirus

Often use hand sanitizers, cleaning products, and face masks.

Properly clean your phone, home, and hands because coronavirus can live on some surfaces for up to three days.

Though very few children have been diagnosed with coronavirus some can develop severe infections. So talk to children about the situation and work with them to prevent coronavirus spreading.

It is essential to stay at home during this pandemic. But staying at home can be a boring thing. So use something like this to entertain yourself and your family.

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