Drugs being used in SARS-CoV2 induced COVID-19 Diseases v2.0

As we know already COVID-19 had been turned into a pandemic, as announced by WHO. Til August 31st, 2020 there is no cure drug against Covid-19. Vaccines against SARS-CoV2 could be best to tackle this viral disease. There are several drugs which are being used as 'may-work' drugs. The most annoying part for doctors and scientists is we are yet to understand the disease fully. The pathophysiology of COVID-19 is still under microscope, and there are some hypothesis which collectively may be true for this viral infection. Though viral pneumonia is the most common manifestation of this disease, it is multi-systemic hypercoagulatory & inflammatory disease, affecting lungs, hearts, vascular system, brain mostly. 

I wrote down this post on April 13th and updated til September 1st, 2020 and then abandoned that post due to several issues with Blogger format, and  therefore this is the new post.  

Drugs Against CoViD-19

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Til August 31st, 2020 there is no cure drug against Covid-19. Vaccines could be best to tackle this viral disease. I wrote down this post on April 24th, and I am actively updating this post. 

 

• Hydroxy-chloroquine (HCQS)

This old antimalarial and DMARD drug saw massive support from ICMR and US President Trump. People started taking it as prophylaxis without any proven benefit in prophylaxis. Trials in China also showed no proven benefit i.e. faster recovery with HCQS. In vitro studies showed that HCQS kills the virus.