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New Study Suggests Some Cannabis Compounds May Prevent COVID-19 From Infecting Human Cells

CBS New York · CBS New York · last updated
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — While vaccines are the gold standard to prevent COVID-19, researchers may have found another preventative in cannabis. A new study has found that certain cannabis extracts may actually stop the coronavirus from infecting human cells, CBS2’s Dr. Max Gomez reported Thursday. COVID VACCINENow, two of these non-psychoactive compounds, CBGA and CBDA, may turn out to help prevent the spread of COVID. That comes from a just-published study from Oregon State University and Oregon Health and Sciences University in the respected Journal of Natural Products. “CBDA and CBGA bind to specific locations on the virus spike protein, and these locations are necessary for the spike protein to interact and infect human cells.
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