Repurposed Drugs and Covid-19 Pandemic-What and Why?
Jeevan Ranjan Dash · The Journal of Phytopharmacology · 2021
New remedies for COVID-19 are the demand of time as we live in a phase beyond containment in this current pandemic. Its impractical to think of a quick relief immediately as drug development from a scratch is not an easy and quick process. Repurposing of drugs might be a method where drugs already tested safe to humans will be redeployed to curb a disease. Use of repurposed drugs alone may not be able to produce a clear and advantageous clinical result where a carefully combined cocktails could be a good alternative, as seen in treatment of HIV in the 1990s. But the most important question now is now, which combination? This article gives a detailed review on repurposed drugs under clinical trial for COVID-19 to find out a suitable cocktail.