I first found an interesting article about how llamas might be the secret to producing a COVID vaccine, but after searching for the original study the article refers to, I concluded that the research paper was either taken down or not available to the public. After searching for a new topic, I came across an article titled “Saline Spray Could Slow COVID’s Spread in the Lungs: Study”. The news article and the abstract are somewhat similar. Being made for a general public audience, the news article goes into significantly less detail on the results. For example, the news article says that the solution containing 1.1% NaCl reduced replication by 88% in lung cells, but leaves out the fact that 1.2% NaCl reduced by 90% and also spares details on “membrane depolarization”. Comparing the article and the whole research paper, the article completely discards the rest of the article. Instead of echoing the process of arriving at their results and conclusion, it relied on a direct interaction with one of the authors, where it seemed much more general questions were asked. The only reference to the paper was the aforementioned line about NaCl ratios. I feel like many readers including myself would like to have read about this process, in simpler terms. Another detail I found weird was that the paper discusses efficacy in both lung and kidney cells, but the article only points out effectiveness in lung cells.
Link to article: https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2021-09-24/saline-spray-could-slow-covids-spread-in-the-lungs-study
Link to paper: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsptsci.1c00080
