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COVID-19 Comes 40 Years After AIDS - Any Lesson?
(AIDS Reviews, 2020-06)
The pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has hit health-care systems and societies in an unprecedented manner. In 1981, the first cases of AIDS were reported and wide diagnostic ...
The Importance of Understanding the Stages of COVID-19 in Treatment and Trials
(AIDS reviews, 2021)
COVID-19, caused by SARS-CoV-2, continues to be a major health problem since its first description in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. Multiple drugs have been tried to date in the treatment of COVID-19. Critical to treatment ...
New sars-cov-2 variants challenge vaccines protection
(AIDS Reviews, 2021)
By the end of February 2021, roughly 115 million people worldwide had been infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and more than 2.5 million had died. Uneasily, the coronavirus disease ...
Main differences between the first and second waves of COVID-19 in Madrid, Spain
(International journal of infectious diseases, 2021)
Background: The emergence and rapid global spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) represents a major challenge to health services, and has disrupted social and economic activities worldwide. ...
Oral antivirals for the prevention and treatment of SARS-CoV-2 infection
(AIDS Reviews, 2022)
Vaccines and antivirals are the classical weapons deployed to contain, prevent, and treat life-threatening
viral illnesses. Specifically, for SARS-CoV-2 infection, vaccines protect against severe COVID-19 disease
manifestations ...
Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis for viral infections other than HIV
(Infezioni in Medicina, 2022)
The battle against human viral infections has histori-cally relied on two medical strategies, namely vaccines to protect from contagion and antivirals to treat infected patients. In the absence of vaccines, antivirals have ...
Is SARS-CoV-2 the only cause of long-COVID?
(AIDS Reviews, 2022)
Around 10% of adults infected with SARS-CoV-2 that survive a first episode of COVID-19 appear to experience long-term clinical manifestations. The signs and symptoms of this post-acute COVID-19 syndrome (PACS) include ...
The opioid epidemic during the COVID-19 pandemic: Impact on HIV and HCV control
(NLM (Medline), 2021)
The opioid epidemic is a tragedy in the United States. In the 12-month period that ended in April 2021, more than 100,000 US citizens died of drug overdose, up almost 30% from the 78,000 deaths in the prior year.