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Could a nasal spray help prevent Covid transmission?
Although vaccines will go a long way to reducing the number of cases of Covid, there鈥檚 still a need for other approaches.
One of these could be an engineered biomolecule, designed by virologists Anne Moscona and Matteo Porotto, that blocks SARS-CoV-2 precisely at the moment it tries to enter cells in the nose and upper airways.
Anne explains how this 鈥渕olecular mask鈥 would work.
(Image: Illustration of a person using nasal spray, Credit: Getty Images.)
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