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ArticleTherapeutic innovation & regulatory science2020

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Spread and Pharmacovigilance Implications: Expert Opinion.

Peter Yamoah, Thelma Mpoku Alalbila, Varsha Bangalee, Frasia Oosthuizen

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Article in Therapeutic innovation & regulatory science, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Peter YamoahSchool of Pharmacy, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ho, Ghana. pyamoah@uhas.edu.gh.ORCID 0000-0001-6518-5454
Thelma Mpoku AlalbilaSchool of Pharmacy, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ho, Ghana.
Varsha BangaleeCollege of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.
Frasia OosthuizenCollege of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.
University of Health and Allied Sciences · GHUniversity of KwaZulu-Natal · ZA

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is rapidly spreading throughout the world after emerging in China in December 2019. Currently, there are no approved treatments for COVID-19 based on large clinical trial data, and hence, management involves infection prevention and control measures and supportive care. With anecdotal reports and in vitro studies suggesting that certain medicines already in use for treatment of other conditions could be viable treatment options, there has been an increased demand for these therapies which could have adverse consequences on patients and healthcare systems. Toxicity from these medicines resulting from a mad rush for them at community pharmacies and pressure on physicians to prescribe for individuals who do not have the infection are worth noting. Furthermore, the indiscriminate use of these medicines could result in viral resistance as well as acute shortage such that patients who routinely take them for other conditions may not get them.

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Antiviral AgentsBetacoronavirusCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19 Drug TreatmentPneumonia, ViralChinaChloroquineHumansHydroxychloroquinePandemicsPharmacovigilanceProjectionSARS-CoV-2Antiviral AgentsChloroquineHydroxychloroquineChloroquineCoronavirusesCOVID-19HydroxychloroquinePharmacovigilance

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PMID33258095
PMCPMC7194243
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