The time to offer treatments for COVID-19.
Expert Opin Investig Drugs
; 30(5): 505-518, 2021 May.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1132283
ABSTRACT
Background:
COVID-19 has several overlapping phases. Treatments to date have focused on the late stage of disease in hospital. Yet, the pandemic is by propagated by the viral phase in out-patients. The current public health strategy relies solely on vaccines to prevent disease.Methods:
We searched the major national registries, pubmed.org, and the preprint servers for all ongoing, completed and published trial results.Results:
As of 2/15/2021, we found 111 publications reporting findings on 14 classes of agents, and 9 vaccines. There were 62 randomized controlled studies, the rest retrospective observational analyses. Only 21 publications dealt with outpatient care. Remdesivir and high titer convalescent plasma have emergency use authorization for hospitalized patients in the U.S.A. There is also support for glucocorticoid treatment of the COVID-19 respiratory distress syndrome. Monoclonal antibodies are authorized for outpatients, but supply is inadequate to treat all at time of diagnosis. Favipiravir, ivermectin, and interferons are approved in certain countries.Expert Opinion Vaccines and antibodies are highly antigen specific, and new SARS-Cov-2 variants are appearing. We call on public health authorities to authorize treatments with known low-risk and possible benefit for outpatients in parallel with universal vaccination.Keywords
Full text:
Available
Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
COVID-19 Vaccines
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COVID-19
Type of study:
Diagnostic study
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Experimental Studies
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Observational study
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Prognostic study
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Randomized controlled trials
Topics:
Long Covid
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Vaccines
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Variants
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Expert Opin Investig Drugs
Journal subject:
Drug Therapy
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
13543784.2021.1901883
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