A Narrative Review of Existing Options for COVID-19-Specific Treatments

The new coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was declared a global pandemic in early 2020. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has affected morbidity and mortality tremendously. Even though multiple drugs are being used throughout the world since the advent of COVID-19, only limited treatment options are a...

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Autores principales: Wasey Ali Yadullahi Mir, Abdul Hasan Siddiqui, Gautam Valecha, Shawn Patel, Fatima Ayub, Riddhi Upadhyay, Sana Ahmed Alhajri, Suman Gaire, Dhan Bahadur Shrestha
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:bf07e36caaed4205b3f6003c37ce33592021-11-22T01:11:17ZA Narrative Review of Existing Options for COVID-19-Specific Treatments1687-864710.1155/2021/8554192https://doaj.org/article/bf07e36caaed4205b3f6003c37ce33592021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/8554192https://doaj.org/toc/1687-8647The new coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was declared a global pandemic in early 2020. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has affected morbidity and mortality tremendously. Even though multiple drugs are being used throughout the world since the advent of COVID-19, only limited treatment options are available for COVID-19. Therefore, drugs targeting various pathologic aspects of the disease are being explored. Multiple studies have been published to demonstrate their clinical efficacy until now. Based on the current evidence to date, we summarized the mechanism, roles, and side effects of all existing treatment options to target this potentially fatal virus.Wasey Ali Yadullahi MirAbdul Hasan SiddiquiGautam ValechaShawn PatelFatima AyubRiddhi UpadhyaySana Ahmed AlhajriSuman GaireDhan Bahadur ShresthaHindawi LimitedarticleMicrobiologyQR1-502ENAdvances in Virology, Vol 2021 (2021)
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Abdul Hasan Siddiqui
Gautam Valecha
Shawn Patel
Fatima Ayub
Riddhi Upadhyay
Sana Ahmed Alhajri
Suman Gaire
Dhan Bahadur Shrestha
A Narrative Review of Existing Options for COVID-19-Specific Treatments
description The new coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was declared a global pandemic in early 2020. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has affected morbidity and mortality tremendously. Even though multiple drugs are being used throughout the world since the advent of COVID-19, only limited treatment options are available for COVID-19. Therefore, drugs targeting various pathologic aspects of the disease are being explored. Multiple studies have been published to demonstrate their clinical efficacy until now. Based on the current evidence to date, we summarized the mechanism, roles, and side effects of all existing treatment options to target this potentially fatal virus.
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author Wasey Ali Yadullahi Mir
Abdul Hasan Siddiqui
Gautam Valecha
Shawn Patel
Fatima Ayub
Riddhi Upadhyay
Sana Ahmed Alhajri
Suman Gaire
Dhan Bahadur Shrestha
author_facet Wasey Ali Yadullahi Mir
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Shawn Patel
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Sana Ahmed Alhajri
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Dhan Bahadur Shrestha
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title A Narrative Review of Existing Options for COVID-19-Specific Treatments
title_short A Narrative Review of Existing Options for COVID-19-Specific Treatments
title_full A Narrative Review of Existing Options for COVID-19-Specific Treatments
title_fullStr A Narrative Review of Existing Options for COVID-19-Specific Treatments
title_full_unstemmed A Narrative Review of Existing Options for COVID-19-Specific Treatments
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publisher Hindawi Limited
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