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ReviewFrontiers in pharmacology2022

Drugs for the prevention and treatment of COVID-19 and its complications: An update on what we learned in the past 2 years.

Giuseppe Remuzzi, Stefano Schiaffino, Maria Gabriella Santoro, Garret A FitzGerald, Gennaro Melino, Carlo Patrono

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In one paragraph

Review in Frontiers in pharmacology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
7citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 18% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.

Giuseppe RemuzziIstituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri IRCCS, Bergamo, Italy.
Stefano SchiaffinoVenetian Institute of Molecular Medicine (VIMM), Padova, Italy.
Maria Gabriella SantoroDepartment of Biology, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy.
Garret A FitzGeraldInstitute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States.
Gennaro MelinoDepartment of Experimental Medicine, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy.
Carlo PatronoDepartment of Pharmacology, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy.
University of Rome Tor Vergata · ITIstituti di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico · ITTranslational Therapeutics (United States) · USUniversità Cattolica del Sacro Cuore · ITVeneto Institute of Molecular Medicine · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The COVID-19 Committee of the Lincei Academy has reviewed the scientific evidence supporting the efficacy and safety of existing and new drugs/biologics for the preventing and treating of COVID-19 and its complications. This position paper reports what we have learned in the field in the past 2 years. The focus was on, but not limited to, drugs and neutralizing monoclonal antibodies, anti-SARS-CoV-2 agents, anti-inflammatory and immunomodulatory drugs, complement inhibitors and anticoagulant agents. We also discuss the risks/benefit of using cell therapies on COVID-19 patients. The report summarizes the available evidence, which supports recommendations from health authorities and panels of experts regarding some drugs and biologics, and highlights drugs that are not recommended, or drugs for which there is insufficient evidence to recommend for or against their use. We also address the issue of the safety of drugs used to treat underlying concomitant conditions in COVID-19 patients. The investigators did an enormous amount of work very quickly to understand better the nature and pathophysiology of COVID-19. This expedited the development and repurposing of safe and effective therapeutic interventions, saving an impressive number of lives in the community as well as in hospitals.

Indexed as

biologicscell therapyCOVID-19drugspreventiontreatment

Identifiers

PMID36304162
PMCPMC9595217
OpenAlexW4303969462

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