%K Actemra, Antiviral medicines, ARCoV, AstraZeneca, ChulaCov19, CoronaVac, COVID-19, CureVac, CytoSorb, Ivermectin, Moderna, Oleandrin, Pfizer, Remdesivir, Ritonavir, Vaccines.
%X Introduction. The global devastating pandemic coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a worldwide multisystemic infection caused by the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which has emerged as a menace to the global public health and countries economy. There is a crucial necessity for the suggestion of effective drugs to eliminate the virus outbreak. Several candidate drugs with existing emerging evidence try to offer a pharmacological strategy that may inhibit infection in COVID-19 patients. By, October 2020, scientists have nominated some reliable and safe types of coronavirus vaccines like Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca, CureVac, CoronaVac, etc. that are effective and showed 95% to 90% protection, respectively. Aim. This review highlights important clinical and in vitro studies, uses of potent antiviral drugs and most recent vaccines against COVID-19 disease.
%D 2020
%J Journal of Life Science and Biomedicine
%L eprints559
%N 06
%T Recent drugs and vaccine candidates to tackle
COVID-19
%R https://dx.doi.org/10.51145/jlsb.2020.9
%P 70-79
%V 10
%A Ehsan GHARIB MOMBENI
%A Mahshad YOUSEFI
%A Saeid CHEKANI-AZAR
%A Mohamed Samy ABOUSENNA
%A Kosar ARMIN
%A Fatemeh SHAVANDI
%A Elham EMAMI
%A Yadollah BAHRAMI
%I Scienceline Publications, Ltd