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Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine

2020

2019-nCoV

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Emerging Therapeutic Strategies For Covid-19 Patients, Shudong Zhu, Xialing Guo, Kyla Geary, Dianzheng Zhang Mar 2020

Emerging Therapeutic Strategies For Covid-19 Patients, Shudong Zhu, Xialing Guo, Kyla Geary, Dianzheng Zhang

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Over 100,000 cases of COVID-19 patients infected with the novel coronavirus SARS-COV-2 have been reported worldwide in approximately 2 months, resulting in over 3000 deaths. Potential therapeutic strategies, including remdesivir, chloroquine phosphate, abidol, lopinavir/ritonavir, plasma, antibody, vaccine and stem cells are discussed in this review. With the number of patients increasing daily, there is an urgent need for effective therapeutic intervention.