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SUBMITTER: Shang L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8446994 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Shang Lianhan L Lye David Chien DC Cao Bin B
Respirology (Carlton, Vic.) 20210708 8
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is ongoing and many drugs have been studied in clinical trials. From a pathophysiological perspective, anti-viral drugs may be more effective in the early stage while immunomodulators may be more effective in severe patients in later stages of infection. While drugs such as lopinavir-ritonavir, hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin have proved to be ineffective in randomized controlled trials, corticosteroids, neutralizing monoclonal antibodies, rem ...[more]