Pharmacologist Kondrakhin said that “KovBAD” cannot be used as a medicine the military to combat the coronavirus of the drug “KovBAD”. According to him, biologically active additives (dietary supplements) are not a medicine, but “KovBAD” can be effective in combination with other drugs. Dietary supplements contain only 30 percent of the active substance, and the medicine contains 100 percent, he explained to Lente.ru, noting that, unlike drugs, dietary supplements are registered without serious clinical studies.
However, Kondrakhin noted, that dietary supplements can be an auxiliary element in the treatment of something, and also become a widely used tool along with vaccination, since they have beneficial properties. “These are food additives that allow you to increase the activity of the body, add properties that are lacking in the body, for example, vitamin D3, selenium, magnesium – these are all dietary supplements. They had to show their effectiveness, they added a lot of good substances that help to overcome the virus in the primary response, but this is not a treatment, but prevention of possible changes in the body, reducing the likelihood of the virus catching on the body, the nasopharynx, “said the pharmacologist.