Race to find COVID-19 treatments accelerates

Science (New York, N.Y.)
Volume 367, 2020, Issue 6485, P 1412-1413

Kupferschmidt, K.; Cohen, J.

Abstract

With cases of the new coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) climbing steeply everywhere from Madrid to Manhattan , overwhelming one hospital after another and pushing the global death toll past 17,000, the sprint to find treatments has dramatically accelerated. Drugs that stop the novel coronavirus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), could save the lives of severely ill patients, protect health care workers and others at high risk of infection, and reduce the time patients spend in hospital beds.

Keywords

Clinical aspects, diagnosis, treatment