A brief review of the latest pharmacological treatments of COVID-19

Caspian J Intern Med. 2020 Fall;11(Suppl 1):460-465. doi: 10.22088/cjim.11.0.460.

Abstract

New Coronavirus which is called 2019-nCoV (2019-Novel-Coronavirus) or SARS-Cov-2 (Severe Acute respiratory Syndrome-Coronavirus 2) causes deadly pneumonia that first appeared in December 2019 in Wuhan city in China. This virus spreads all over the world quickly and made several problems for the community and healthcare system. Several drugs have been tried to manage COVID-19; however, our knowledge of this virus is not complete. At any rate, effective treatment or vaccine for this disease has not been discovered yet. Furthermore, to achieve this goal, more studies are needed on the structure of the virus and its pathogenesis mechanism. In this article, we summarized several articles suggesting treatments of COVID-19.

Keywords: 2019-nCoV; COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; pharmacological; treatment; vaccine.

Publication types

  • Review