| Issue |
Integrat Respir Med
Volume 1, 2020
Topical Issue - Integrative Respiratory Medicine for COVID-19
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| Article Number | 1 | |
| Number of page(s) | 5 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/irm/2020001 | |
| Published online | 29 September 2020 | |
Review Article
Advances in treatment of COVID-19
1
Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing 210029, China
2
Department of Physiology, Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou 221009, China
3
Department of Respiratory Medicine, Jiangsu Province Hospital of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing 210029, China
* Corresponding author: zhouxianmeijs@aliyun.com
Received:
4
June
2020
Accepted:
25
July
2020
The novel coronavirus pneumonia is an acute infectious disease caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The global pandemic of this novel coronavirus pneumonia has greatly threatened human health and brought enormous economy losses. By the end of May 20, 2020, the pandemic of this disease had caused more than 2.70 million infections and more than 320 thousand deaths. This paper reviewed the recent advances in the treatment of the novel coronavirus pneumonia to provide basic references for disease control.
Key words: Novel coronavirus pneumonia / COVID⁃19 / Therapeutic drug
© Q. Wu et al., Published by EDP Sciences, 2020
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