The current therapeutic strategies of COVID-19

¹ School of public health, Xiamen University, 361005, Xiamen, China
² Suzhou Science & Technology Town Foreign Language School, 215010, Suzhou, China
³ Nanjing Foreign Language School - British Columbia Academy, 210024, Nanjing, China
⁴ Suzhou Dulwich International High School, 215000, Suzhou, China

^† These authors contributed equally.
^* Corresponding author:
^a zcchen@stu.xmu.edu.cn,
^b wency12003@outlook.com,
^c xlr2004@163.com,
^d zabrina.zhang23@dchigh-suzhou.cn.

Abstract

At the beginning of 2020, the Covid-19 epidemic broke out and soon became a global public health problem. Therefore, many countries are speeding up the development of antiviral drugs and COVID-19 vaccines to achieve effective prevention, control, and treatment of Covid-19. This paper reviews the pathogenic mechanism and detection and diagnosis of COVID-19 and the status and research progress of antiviral drugs, vaccines, and some other treatments against it based on previous articles published in this field. Although Covid-19’s pathogenic mechanism has been generally figured out and the detection methods are advanced, old pneumonia treatment methods are adopted Covid-19 due to the lack of high-efficiency antiviral drugs. Meanwhile, as more and more safe and effective vaccines enter the clinical phase, the treatment of the Covid-19 epidemic may rely more on the prevention-oriented strategy.