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... In these perspectives, likely, targeting furin might be an option for the prevention or treatment of Sars-CoV2 infection. So yeah. Maybe inhibiting furin will work. The author theorizes it might help even more so in patients with heart issues.Furin activity exposes the binding and fusion domains, essential steps for the entry of the virus into the cell. Since the S- glycoprotein of all coronaviruses contains a similar furin cleavage site, it is plausible that the activity of this enzyme is essential for the zoonotic transmission of many coronaviruses, including Covid-19 enveloped by a MERS-CoV and Sars-CoV S glycoprotein containing a furin cleavage site.