The nasal spray is supposed to help those who have already fallen ill, but primarily ensures that others stay healthy. This is done by removing all the virus that is on the outside of the cells, which means that the sick person has reduced symptoms and becomes less contagious.
– It goes directly to the virus and destroys their envelopes. It is a very unique mechanism compared to vaccines or other antiviral drugs, says Hazem Khalef.
– Hopefully, the virus can be kept more in check in a small population.
Also works on unknown viruses
Theoretically, the nasal spray could stop a pandemic or epidemic. And this applies not only to the viruses that already exist, but also to those that may come in the future.
– Then this can be very useful. It works on all enveloped viruses, even unknown viruses.