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Worlds' approach to treat COVID-19

Treatment of Corona Virus(till date)                                                           Photo by  CDC  on  Unsplash There are 3 approaches that can be taken to treat the COVID-19. 1. To test the efficiency of drugs that are already available. 2. To bring out a new drug which are in their experimental phase. 3. To develop a new vaccine. One by one we will discuss all the three approaches 1)Drugs available already – A) Remdesivir (Drug Bank id- DB14761 ) This is the drug which was used during EBOLA outbreak during 2016. Remdesivir, or GS-5734, is an adenosine triphosphate analog. In 2017, its activity against the coronavirus family of viruses was also demonstrated. Remdesivir is also being researched as a potential treatment to SARS-CoV2, the coronavirus responsible for COVID-19. It is assumed to act...