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As early as March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO), [2] European Medicines Agency (EMA), [3] US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), [4] and the Chinese government and drug manufacturers [5] [6] were coordinating with academic and industry researchers to speed development of vaccines, antiviral drugs, and post-infection therapies.
Antiviral medications were tried in people with severe disease. [1] As of March 2020 several medications were already approved for other uses or were already in advanced testing. [43] As of April 2020 trials were investigating whether existing medications could be used effectively against the body's immune reaction to SARS-CoV-2 infection.
In a pandemic situation, before a vaccine becomes available, this level of treatment and medical prevention may require providing drugs to 80% of the people in an affected community. [3] Consequently, very large supplies of the drugs must be made available — much larger supplies than could be produced on demand.
A term for COVID-19 used by former United States president Donald Trump to emphasize that the pandemic started in China. Comirnaty. Main article: Comirnaty. The commercial name for the FDA approved COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer, released August 21, 2021. It also has several other names or designators used on the actual vials. Community transmission
Chronological table of epidemic and pandemic events in human history Event Years Location Disease Death toll (estimate) Ref. 1350 BC plague of Megiddo c. 1350 BC Megiddo, land of Canaan: Amarna letters EA 244, Biridiya, mayor of Megiddo complains to Amenhotep III of his area being "consumed by death, plague and dust" Unknown [29]
The GOP report notes that in his 2021 book "Spike: The Virus vs The People," an inside look at the British response to the pandemic, Farrar refers to a paper co-written by Ralph Baric of the ...
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In Russia and China a drug called arbidol is also used as a treatment. Testing of the drug has predominantly occurred in these countries and, although no clinical trials have been published demonstrating this is an effective drug, some data suggest that this could be a useful treatment for influenza. [5] [6]