Abstract
An outbreak of a novel coronavirus (COVID-19 or 2019-CoV) infection has posed significant threats to international health and the economy. In the absence of treatment for this virus, there is an urgent need to find alternative methods to control the spread of disease. Here, we have conducted an online search for all treatment options related to coronavirus infections as well as some RNA-virus infection and we have found that general treatments, coronavirus-specific treatments, and antiviral treatments should be useful in fighting COVID-19. We suggest that the nutritional status of each infected patient should be evaluated before the administration of general treatments and the current children's RNA-virus vaccines including influenza vaccine should be immunized for uninfected people and health care workers. In addition, convalescent plasma should be given to COVID-19 patients if it is available. In conclusion, we suggest that all the potential interventions be implemented to control the emerging COVID-19 if the infection is uncontrollable.
TY - JOUR
T1 - Potential interventions for novel coronavirus in China: A systematic review.
AU - Zhang,Lei,
AU - Liu,Yunhui,
Y1 - 2020/03/03/
PY - 2020/01/30/received
PY - 2020/02/04/accepted
PY - 2020/2/14/pubmed
PY - 2020/3/19/medline
PY - 2020/2/14/entrez
KW - 2019-CoV
KW - COVID-19
KW - MERS
KW - SARS
KW - coronavirus
KW - potential interventions
SP - 479
EP - 490
JF - Journal of medical virology
JO - J Med Virol
VL - 92
IS - 5
N2 - An outbreak of a novel coronavirus (COVID-19 or 2019-CoV) infection has posed significant threats to international health and the economy. In the absence of treatment for this virus, there is an urgent need to find alternative methods to control the spread of disease. Here, we have conducted an online search for all treatment options related to coronavirus infections as well as some RNA-virus infection and we have found that general treatments, coronavirus-specific treatments, and antiviral treatments should be useful in fighting COVID-19. We suggest that the nutritional status of each infected patient should be evaluated before the administration of general treatments and the current children's RNA-virus vaccines including influenza vaccine should be immunized for uninfected people and health care workers. In addition, convalescent plasma should be given to COVID-19 patients if it is available. In conclusion, we suggest that all the potential interventions be implemented to control the emerging COVID-19 if the infection is uncontrollable.
SN - 1096-9071
UR - https://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/citation/32052466/full_citation
L2 - https://doi.org/10.1002/jmv.25707
DB - PRIME
DP - Unbound Medicine
ER -
