COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator
Edit: contact made, thank you!If anyone is reading this with connections to the Gates Foundation: Please contact Dr. Robert Kruse at John Hopkins. https://twitter.com/RobertLKruse.  I have been trying to get in touch with people at Gates.  This announcement unfortunately features no contact email address :(Dr. Kruse is developing an extremely promising therapeutic, ACE2-fc, which will both neutralize the virus and treat the symptoms of the disease.  It has been shown to work in vitro; variants have been tested in animals models; and its been through Phase II human trials for a different indication.  A variant of the therapy, soluble ACE2, is being trialed in humans now in China.Details on the approach can be found in his paper here:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7029759/ see "ACE2 immunoadhesin strategy"