Mayo testing Oral Coronavirus Medicine

A big step in the pandemic

Invisible enemy.

A drug with the potential to treat coronavirus is now being tested in mayo clinic laboratories.

Kimt news 3's annalise johnson joins us live now with some new information about the drug.

Annalise?

Katie?

George?

Medtech company biosig opened an office in rochester here above the bleu duck kitchen late last year.

It formed a company viralclear?

Which is working on a medication that has shown to be more than 98% percent effective against coronavirus... and now we know it has some pretty special qualities.

The drug?

Vicromax has already undergone testing as a hepatitis c medication?

So we can be sure it's safe.

While some cures being developed are injections... this one is taken orally?

Which means a patient wouldn't have to be in a hospital to take it.

It also can be taken at all stages of infection?

So it helps more than just patients who are severely ill.

I spoke to ceo nick spring on the medication's progress so far.xxx the advantage you have is you've got multiple formats, which makes it attractive and easy to use from the patients point of view spring tells me the drug could begin human trials any day now.

That's expected to take ?5 weeks?

Though he says it could go even quicker.

Live in rochester annalise johnson kimt news 3.

Thank you annalise.

About a week ago?

The company applied to the treatment acceleration program?

Hoping to speed up the clinical trials.

There's no update on that application yet.///