Recent insights for the emerging COVID-19: drug discovery, therapeutic
options and vaccine development
- Yuefei Zhu,
- Jia Li,
- zhiqing pang
Abstract
SARS-CoV-2 has been marked as a highly pathogenic coronavirus of
COVID-19 disease into the human population, causing over 2.8 million
confirmed cases worldwide. As COVID-19 has posed a global threat with
significant human casualties and severe economic losses, there is a
pressing demand to further understand the current situation and develop
rational strategies to contain the drastic spread of the virus. Although
there are no specific antiviral therapies that have proven effective in
randomized clinical trials, currently, the rapid detection technology
along with several promising therapeutics for COVID-19 have mitigated
its drastic transmission. Besides, global institutions and corporations
have commenced to parse out effective vaccines for the prevention of
COVID-19. Herein, the present review will give exhaustive details of
extensive researches concerning the drug discovery and therapeutic
options for COVID-19 as well as some insightful discussions of the
status of COVID-19.