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mark-r on Feb 28, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: COVID-19 Supply Chain Update

Just make sure you're all stocked up on Forsythia.

(Oblique reference to the movie Contagion)

1001101 on Feb 28, 2020 [–]

I was reminded of that when reading about a compound in licorice (glycyrrhizin) that seem to be effective in reducing the replication of SARS, (another coronavirus):

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12814717 https://www.nature.com/articles/news030609-16 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycyrrhizin

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