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March 17, 2021
Over the last year, an abundance of clinical research has been undertaken to understand common pathologies of COVID-19 illness, including the high rates of thrombosis and endothelial injury. A new state-of-the-art review notes that while an optimal antithrombotic therapy has yet to be determined and appears to be debatable, the ongoing studies provide needed clues and hope for improving outcomes.
“There is so much heterogeneity in protocols that hospitals are using for their ward patients, for their critically ill patients, and even for outpatients,” said senior author Behnood Bikdeli, MD (Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, and Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT). “Then you have all these studies, with people feeling so strongly about one particular regimen versus the other. We thought: enough is enough. Let s systematically look to see what s out there.”
Progress on Research and Funding for COVID-19 Vaccines
First identified in Wuhan, China in late 2019, and declared a global pandemic in March 2020, the COVID-19 has become a pressing burden. As the pandemic continues to unfold, there has been an extensive impact on global health with substantial mortality records and a negative influence on the global economy.
In the face of the global spread of the virus, although large sections of the population in many countries have escaped infections, they remain non-immune to the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Researchers underline that vaccines can play a significant role to increase herd immunity within the population. Vaccines are vital because of their potential to reduce the devastating effects of the pandemic. Covid-19 vaccination will be efficient because it will not only help to protect the individual receiving the vaccine but also prevent the spread of disease to others. Therefore, the demand that the entire population should be vaccinated agai
Research Article
Comparative efficacy and safety of pharmacological interventions for the treatment of COVID-19: A systematic review and network meta-analysis
Min Seo Kim , Contributed equally to this work with: Min Seo Kim, Min Ho An Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
¶‡ MSK and THH share last authorship on this work.
Affiliations Korea University, College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea, Cheongsan Public Health Center, Wando, Republic of Korea
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