The nanosponges are nanoparticles (i.e., ultra-fine particles) that are cloaked in human lung cell membranes and human immune cell membranes. They can attract and neutralize SARS-CoV-2 and cause the virus to lose its ability to hijack a person’s cells and reproduce..
That’s different from other anti-viral medications, which attempt to find targets to go after within a pathogen. But nanosponges essentially create decoys to try to draw in SARS-CoV-2 and then get rid of the virus..
Zhang says that nanosponges may be used both as a treatment after a person has been infected with COVID-19 and as a preventive treatment, given that the nanosponges can stay in the lungs for a period of time..

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