The coronavirus pandemic which has succeeded in bringing almost every activity of the global world to economic, social, and religious standstill is worrying. The rapid spread of the virus across the world in only two months is indicative of the transmissibility of the family of viruses and the significant morbidity and mortality that they can cause. Are there any therapeutic options to this pandemic?
Till date there is no any approved drug or vaccine for the treatment of COVID-19. Scientists are endeavoring to develop treatment of the disease. Anti-malarial 'chloroquine' and some antiviral drugs such as 'remdesivir', 'favipiravir' etc. have been found useful for treatment of COVID-19.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/therapeutic-options.html
Please go through the following RG links.
Article Therapeutic options for the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV)
Article Remdesivir and chloroquine effectively inhibit the recently ...
Preprint 3CLpro inhibitors as a potential therapeutic option for COVID-19
Article Remdesivir as a possible therapeutic option for the COVID-19
You can find a compilation of currently registered clinical trials on the website clinicaltrials.gov
There is also much literature on treatment options abailable in the PubMed database.
There are therapeutic options only they are not available for use yet. A lot of time has to go into the perfection, paying attention to detail and approval, all for the safety of the population.
Dear Dr.Arvind Singh,
I very much support your views on this important issue. Very recently, we have published three reviews on COVID-19, and all are uploaded at Research Gate. We have also discussed the therapeutic options for COVID-19 in our review articles.
With kind regards,
Prof.Dr.Mahendra Pal
There are international and national guidelines with regular modifications
