Repurposing drugs like favipiravir, remdesivir, chloroquine, and TMPRSS2 protease inhibitors have been shown to be effective for the treatment of COVID-19. Personal protective measures should be followed to prevent SARS-CoV-2 infection. In addition, a clinical trial of SARS-CoV-2 vaccine, mRNA-...
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However, there are no clinically approved vaccines or specific therapeutic drugs available for COVID-19. Intensive research on the newly emerged SARS-CoV-2 is urgently needed to elucidate the pathogenic mechanisms and epidemiological characteristics and to identify potential drug targets, which will ...
The overall COVID-19 infections in China have entered a low prevalence level since mid-May, and the vast majority of COVID-19 patients show mild symptoms, medical experts said. Despite a recent increase, the total amount of fever clinic patients is far less than that during the peak of th...
They analyzed the data of 999 British patients hospitalized with COVID-19 and observed that those with the variant had more viral particles in them, but without this changing the severity of their disease. Laboratory experiments meanwhile showed that the variant is three to six tim...
The COVID-19 pandemic poses a great challenge for contemporary public transportation worldwide, resulting from an unprecedented decline in demand and revenue. In this paper, we synthesize the state-of-the-art, up to early June 2020, on key developments regarding public transportation and the COVI...
COVID-19 infection are still largely underrepresented. In this review, we summarized current knowledge about COVID-19-related kidney manifestations, their pathologic mechanisms as well as various pharmacotherapies used to treat patients with COVID-19. We also shed light on the effect of these ...
Given the significant resource challenges in the country, the approach was centered around early aggressive containment to allow for building capacity to respond to COVID-19 cases. On February 22, Lebanon shut down public transport and banned flights to countries that had experienced exponential ...
for travellers who qualify as fully vaccinated. The pause was put in place on June 11, and is allowing airports to focus on streamlining their operations, while the government moves forward with its planned move of COVID-19 testing for air travellers outside of airports to select test provider...
Treatment of COVID-19 with TCM So far, no therapeutic agents have been proven to be effective for SARS-CoV-2-caused diseases [36]. TCM is based on the central premise that when pathogens invade the body to cause diseases, they reduce the immune function of the body [37]. In general,...