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"Declaration of competing interest MFF was a recipient of a Mitacs Accelerate Post-doctoral fellowship award that was funded in part (33%) by Akseera Pharma Corp. MFF and RED are co-inventors on international applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty entitled “Interaction of Sars-Cov-2 proteins with molecular and cellular mechanisms of host cells and formulations to treat COVID-19” (PCT/IN2021/050325 and PCT/N2021/050699). Akseera Pharma Corp. was not involved in the conceptualization, design, data collection, analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."

"This work was supported by grants from the 10.13039/501100000038Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) to R.E.D. #RGPIN-2019-05642 and RGPAS-2019-00008, and the 10.13039/501100000196Canada Foundation for Innovation—Leader's Opportunity Fund and Ontario Research Fund (Project No. 30259). MFF was supported by a Mitacs COVID-19 Accelerate Postdoctoral Fellowship. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. MFF was a recipient of a Mitacs Accelerate Post-doctoral fellowship award that was funded in part (33%) by Akseera Pharma Corp. MFF and RED are co-inventors on international applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty entitled “Interaction of Sars-Cov-2 proteins with molecular and cellular mechanisms of host cells and formulations to treat COVID-19” (PCT/IN2021/050325 and PCT/N2021/050699). Akseera Pharma Corp. was not involved in the conceptualization, design, data collection, analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."