Does nicotine prevent coronavirus? Researchers in France (of course) plan trial

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Just before anyone is even thinking smoking helps:

Ongoing coronavirus happenings

I think that might be because nicotine is an ACE2 antagonist. So, not really “frenchest thing ever”, but informed by science (and still, a desperate measure - I guess getting this though the ethics board would have been difficult at any other time). As always, this is very much preliminary, and just looking at this: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=de&as_sdt=0%2C5&as_ylo=2020&q=+nicotine+ACE2&btnG= makes me think that quite a lot of researchers are trying to cover all possible angles r…