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Clinical drug therapies and biologicals currently used or in clinical trial to treat COVID-19

The potential emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants capable of escaping vaccine-generated immune responses poses a looming threat to vaccination efforts and will likely prolong the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, the prevalence of beta coronaviruses circulating in animals and the precede...

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Autores principales: Malek, Rory J., Bill, Colin A., Vines, Charlotte M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Authors. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8486678/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34624681
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biopha.2021.112276
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Sumario:The potential emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants capable of escaping vaccine-generated immune responses poses a looming threat to vaccination efforts and will likely prolong the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, the prevalence of beta coronaviruses circulating in animals and the precedent they have set in jumping into human populations indicates that they pose a continuous threat for future pandemics. Currently, only one therapeutic is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use in treating COVID-19, remdesivir, although other therapies are authorized for emergency use due to this pandemic being a public health emergency. In this review, twenty-four different treatments are discussed regarding their use against COVID-19 and any potential future coronavirus-associated illnesses. Their traditional use, mechanism of action against COVID-19, and efficacy in clinical trials are assessed. Six treatments evaluated are shown to significantly decrease mortality in clinical trials, and ten treatments have shown some form of clinical efficacy.