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What happened?
Scientists from around the world work against the clock to find a effective cure to end pandemic of the coronavirus, which has caused the death of more than 200 thousand people worldwide.
Until now, international governments have proposed a “new normal” with sanitary measures that avoid pandemic spread, but this without having an exact answer of the time that it can take to create a vaccine against the disease.
How is the search process going?
So far, science works on more than 150 different drugs worldwide, to combat Covid-19. However, it is a long process, where the human test and month checkup to find out how the antidote reacts.
This is why, among the efforts that are currently being carried out are: The World Health Organization project, known as “solidarity”, which seeks to evaluate promising treatments in the world, to help manage the solution of the pandemic.
The United Kingdom also joins this fight, with one of the most promising projects, according to the BBC, called “Recovery”, which so far has more than 5 thousand patients who will collaborate in the tests necessary to find the cure for the disease.
Similarly, there are other projects that have been implemented around the world, including the use of blood from patients recovered from Covid-19 to create antibodies that can help overcome the disease of those who still have it.
Medicines that could fight the pandemic
According to a study carried out by the BBC, the world’s scientists have focused on the use of existing drugs to try to combat this disease, including:
- Antiviral drugs that directly affect the ability of the coronavirus to expand within the body and prevent the patient’s medical condition from complicating.
- Medicines that can help the immune system, for patients do not have collateral damage in the body.
- Antibody-raising drugs, either from survivors’ blood or made in a laboratory, that can attack Covid-19.
Although the investigation is underway, how long it could take scientists is unknown discover a solution to this pandemic that does not stop and that has brought serious consequences to the entire world, not only in health, but also economic and social.
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