Hydrobromide for COVID-19

Hydrobromide has been reported as potentially beneficial for COVID-19 in the following study.

COVID-19 involves the interplay of 350+ viral and host proteins and factors providing many therapeutic targets. Scientists have proposed 10,000+ potential treatments. c19early.org analyzes 200+ treatments. We have not reviewed hydrobromide in detail.

Study suggesting benefit with hydrobromide

Xiong et al., Several FDA-approved drugs effectively inhibit SARS-CoV-2 infection in vitro, bioRxiv, doi:10.1101/2020.06.05.135996

AbstractTo identify drugs that are potentially used for the treatment of COVID-19, the potency of 1403 FDA-approved drugs were evaluated using a robust pseudovirus assay and the candidates were further confirmed by authentic SARS-CoV-2 assay. Four compounds, Clomiphene (citrate), Vortioxetine, Vortioxetine (hydrobromide) and Asenapine (hydrochloride), showed potent inhibitory effects in both pseudovirus and authentic virus assay. The combination of Clomiphene (citrate), Vortioxetine and Asenapine (hydrochloride) is much more potent than used alone, with IC50 of 0.34 μM.