Buying time: Drug repurposing to treat the host in COVID ‐19H

This article takes a different view. It focuses on an alternative approach to the scientific discovery of treatments for individual patients, reviews the mechanisms of action and clinical experience with specific drugs that might be useful, and conside rs whether or not recent lessons regarding this “bottom up” approach to treatment have been learned”.Now with a new virus and pandemic upon us, Fedson's 2016 comments appear chilling, are cause for reflection on what we have learnt and importantly offer focus on an immediate opportunity in the area oftreating the host (Fedson DS, Ann Transl Med, 2016;4:421).
Source: Pharmacology Research and Perspectives - Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: Tags: COMMENTARY Source Type: research