Hydroxychloroquine: A Familiar Agent to Combat the Pandemic of COVID-19

Frontiers in Medicine

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Vasilios M. Polymeropoulos¹ 

[1] United States

关键词: COVID-19;    hydroxychloroquine;    chloroquine;    SARS-CoV-2;    SARS;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fmed.2020.00192

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

The novel coronavirus, COVID-19, has taken the world by storm, causing widespread quarantines and lockdowns of entire nations, actions not seen in over a century since the 1918 Spanish Influenza. The natural defense against an infectious pathogen is to avoid contracting the pathogen altogether through quarantine, a practice employed since antiquity (1). As world leaders allude to the promise of vaccines in a brief time period and the development of novel agents for treatment, perhaps we should examine whether already existing therapeutics are effective in treating people affected with COVID-19.

【 授权许可】

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