Can Milk Cure COVID-19? Not Exactly, but a New Treatment Shows Promise

College of Medicine researcher Dr. David Ostrov wrote this opinion piece for The Hill after his discovery of a potential therapy or preventative for COVID became public knowledge.

“Got milk? Cure COVID” was a meme that started circulating after one of our discoveries from the University of Florida went public. It playfully highlighted a major medical milestone: We had found a combination of two over-the-counter products that could inhibit 99 percent of SARS-CoV-2 replication in human lung cells, and one of them was milk-based.

Surprisingly, we learned that, if you mix diphenhydramine (the antihistamine in Benadryl) with lactoferrin (a milk protein in dietary supplements), you get an effective COVID-19 treatment. We’re calling this Lactovid™, and the innovation is a result of my many years as a researcher of SARS coronaviruses and as a member of the Global Virus Network’s COVID-19 Taskforce.

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