What Is the Best Drug to Treat COVID-19? The Need for Randomized Controlled Trials

Med. 2020 Dec 18;1(1):9-10. doi: 10.1016/j.medj.2020.04.002. Epub 2020 May 19.

Abstract

The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is currently the biggest public health challenge to the biomedical community of the last century. Despite multiple public health measures,1, 2, 3 there remains an urgent need for pharmacologic therapies to treat infected patients, minimize mortality, and decrease pressures on intensive care units and health systems and optimally, they should also decrease subsequent transmission.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • COVID-19 Drug Treatment*
  • Humans
  • Public Health
  • Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic
  • SARS-CoV-2