May 07, 2020 / NTS GMT
Christine Corrado - Proactive - Moderator
Hello, and welcome back to Proactive New York. I'm Christine Corrado. With me right now is Nader Pourhassan, CEO at CytoDyn; and Dr. Bruce Patterson, Diagnostic Advisor to CytoDyn. Great to see you both. How are you?
Nader Pourhassan - CytoDyn Inc. - President & CEO
Great, thank you for having us.
Questions and Answers:
Christine Corrado - Proactive - ModeratorDr. Patterson, I'll start with you first. The company is sharing an online manuscript regards to its potential coronavirus treatment. Can you tell me a bit about what this describes?
Bruce Patterson - CytoDyn Inc. - Diagnostic Advisor
This is an extremely exciting finding on COVID in general and what really makes COVID so deadly potentially, and that is the enormous amounts of this one protein called RANTES, which is not been written about in the context of COVID. RANTES is a protein, that's 100 times normal in severe COVID patients and five times normal even in mild to